Breakthrough in ‘baby on beach’ case
Wednesday 18th November 2009, 3:00PM GMT.
Det Insp Chris Beechey, of Jersey CID, and Phil James
A DORSET detective was in the Island today to announce a major breakthrough in the unsolved ‘baby on the beach’ case.
Officers now have a DNA profile both of the baby, which was found dead in a Bath Street Wine Cellar bag on a Weymouth beach 29 years ago, and its mother. Scientists say that this will allow the mother to be identified.
Detectives from the UK force also now believe that the mother gave birth to the baby on a ferry travelling between the Island and Weymouth and strangled it before throwing it over the side.
The baby was washed up on Weymouth beach near the pier bandstand on 15 October 1981 and found by three men who were metal-detecting.
Phil James, a retired detective sergeant reviewing the case for Dorset police, who was in Jersey today, said that it was highly likely that the mother came from Jersey.
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One can only have compassion and pity for the unfortunate mother.
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“that the mother came from Jersey.”
Here is a couple of questions that should be answered
1. was the DNA result such that there were markers which would indicate that the mother was of genetic Jersey heritage or
2. could it be that the poor woman was a passenger on a boat that sailed into Weymouth and perhaps that boat had sailed from Jersey? And who says that she never got on the boat in Guernsey?
a good story, great headline, but please it needs more facts!
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