Missing baby claim dismissed

Police worked round the clock in their search for the baby

A major search for a missing baby is called off in north Wales as officers have said they are satisfied the report was false.

A woman in her 30s, was arrested on suspicion of child neglect on Tuesday and is still being questioned at Mold Police Police Station.

A missing person's inquiry - involving several police officers searching addresses in north Wales and Manchester - began on Thursday morning.

Several items of baby clothing and feeding bottles were found at a north Wales home but following medical examinations, detectives are now satisfied that the woman has not not given birth recently.

Family protection officers and the police had been working round the clock to try and find the baby, who they intially thought was just days old.

Inquiries had centred on the home of the woman in custody, and police investigations had got under way Manchester where it was thought the baby's father might live.

A house in Mold had been searched by police and baby clothes and bottles were seized as part of the investigation.