Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 18 Sep 1942
Place: Grand Union Canal, Blomfield Road, Paddington
The body of a newly born female child was found in the Grand Union Canal near Blomfield Road in Paddington.
The child was found by a boy that saw a parcel floating in the canal and pulled it out. After discovering that it was the body of a child he went for the police.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see West London Observer - Friday 18 September 1942, p1
see Unsolved 1942
