Newborn baby found in London has brother and sister also abandoned

Baby Elsa, left in shopping bag in Newham, has siblings discovered in similar circumstances nearby, it can now be reported

Matthew Weaver, Sammy Gecsoyler and Emine Sinmaz
Tue 4 Jun 2024 12.21 EDT

A newborn baby girl found in a park in east London earlier this year has an older brother and sister who were also abandoned in similar separate earlier incidents, it can now be reported.

The girl was named Elsa by hospital staff after she was found in a shopping bag wrapped in a towel in the Greenway park in Newham on a night in January when temperatures dropped to -5C.

DNA tests revealed she has the same parents as a girl temporarily named Roman after being found next to a bench in a park near Roman Road, Newham, in January 2019. Like Elsa, she was found by a dog-walker in freezing temperatures wrapped in a towel inside a shopping bag.

Elsa and Roman also have an older brother, who was provisionally named Harry after he was found wrapped in a blanket in another east London park in Plaistow in September 2017.

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