DSI Lewis Basford from the Met police also said the sex of the baby is unknown and they are hoping that the mum and partner Mark Gordon have given them to someone else.
The Telegraph reports he said: “We can’t say at this time if it’s a boy or a girl and we are still awaiting test results from the placenta found in their car on the M61.
“At the moment, we are still in the position where they have been arrested on suspicion of child neglect and there is a search for the baby.
“We are looking at open land, outbuildings where they may have placed the baby while they were in the local area before we arrested them.
“There's nothing to say they were in the caravan, we still think they were living in the outdoor environment and the that is leading us, and the arrest location, to the outdoor search.
“I think, we’ve got to keep the hope that maybe they have allowed somebody else to care for the baby who thinks they are doing some good on behalf of the couple but as we know, as the temperature drops and the longer the baby goes without parents the risks are high.”
This is so sad, why won’t the couple just say where the baby is? Shocking that they would allow this search to go ahead.. unless they think finding the baby would reveal child neglect or worse 😔