FIVE calls have been received by the police about the baby found washed up on a Weymouth beach 27 years ago.

The ‘baby on the beach’ case was reopened a week ago today when two detectives from Dorset police travelled over to the Island in a bid to try to uncover what happened to the girl.

It is believed she was strangled and possibly thrown from a ferry from Jersey to Weymouth, before she was washed up near the Pier Bandstand in Weymouth on 15 October 1981.

The five calls from people with information have not yet led to any significant developments, but one of those calls was from Jersey and the rest from England.

UK detective Phil James, reviewing unsolved crimes for Dorset police, said that officers did not believe that any of those calls were from the mother of the baby. All the calls were made by women.

• Picture: Det Phil James with Jersey’s Det Insp Kevin Molloy and a copy of the Weekly Post from 1981. Picture by Matthew Hotton