Baby

The body of a baby was found at a refuse pulverising plant at Huyton.

The body was found by chance in a sample of waste sent to a testing station in South Yorkshire from amon the 500 tons of rubbish a day thatwas processed at the Ellis Ashton Street plant.

At the inquest, the pathologist said that the body still had a quarter of an inch of umbilical cord attached, but that it was too badly damage to determine the cause of death orwhether the child have been alive at birth or still-born.

A 32-year-old worker at the South Yorkshire testing station said that he raked off what he first thought to have been a child's doll from a lorry load of rubbish that had arrived from Huyton on 3 April 1984.

He said:

A detective at the inquest said that the discovery of the body led them to launching an immediate investigation in adn around the areas of Liverpool and Kirby where batches of rubbish had been collected before being taken to the Huyton pulversing plant.

He said that the baby's body had probably arrived in rubbish collected in one of four places:

1. St Domingo Road, Everton.
2. Vine Street, Toxteth.
3. Colgate Lane, Whiston.
4. Royal Liverpool Teaching Hospital.

However, he said that extensive inquiries in each of the areas produced negative results.

Folowing the evidence, the Coroner recorded an open verdict.