Baby

The body of a female newly-born child was found in a carrier bag on a first floor landing at Hyde Park Mansions in Marylebone on Friday 18 October 1957.

It had been strangled with a bootlace.

The body was found by a woman that had lived in the flats outside her door. She said that when she had a look she saw some little legs and then ran to a neighbours.

The Coroner said, 'It appears that the child has had a separate existence and has died from strangulation?', and a detective inspector replied, 'That is right, sir. There was a bootlace tied tightly round its throat. It was apparently done after birth'.

The inquest, held on Friday 25 October 1957 was adjourned until 19 November 1957 and upon its conclusion on Friday 22 November 1957 a verdict of murder by a person or persons unknown was returned.

The pathologist said that the child had been fully developed and had at some time been alive and that there was evidence of asphyxia, stating that the cause of death was due to strangulation.