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Police searching an allotment site today (
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A pair of pink child's earmuffs being collected by an officer in Brighton today
''Police are testing placenta found in Constance Marten and her boyfriend Mark Gordon's car to try and determine the gender of their missing two-month-old baby.''
''Detectives hope the baby is still alive and in the care of another person, but say the risks are high after temperatures dipped to 1C overnight.
It is unknown if the infant was full-term or has any health issues.
The Met's DSI Lewis Bashford said: "We can’t say at this time if it’s a boy or a girl and we are still awaiting test results from the placenta found in their car on the M61.
"At the moment, we are still in the position where they have been arrested on suspicion of child neglect and there is a search for the baby.''
"We are looking at open land, outbuildings where they may have placed the baby while they were in the local area before we arrested them.
"There’s nothing to say they were in the caravan, we still think they were living in the outdoor environment and the that is leading us, and the arrest location, to the outdoor search.
"I think, we’ve got to keep the hope that maybe they have allowed somebody else to care for the baby who thinks they are doing some good on behalf of the couple but as we know, as the temperature drops and the longer the baby goes without parents the risks are high."
''Pictures showed officers guarding a shed on an allotment this morning, as they scour a huge area between Brighton and Newhaven - where the couple were spotted a few days ago.''
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Mystery over Constance Marten's missing baby as police test placenta
Detectives hope that Constance Marten and Mark Gordon's baby is still alive and in the care of another person, but say the risks are high after temperatures dipped to 1C overnight
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Police searching an allotment site today (
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A pair of pink child's earmuffs being collected by an officer in Brighton today
''Police are testing placenta found in Constance Marten and her boyfriend Mark Gordon's car to try and determine the gender of their missing two-month-old baby.''
''Detectives hope the baby is still alive and in the care of another person, but say the risks are high after temperatures dipped to 1C overnight.
It is unknown if the infant was full-term or has any health issues.
The Met's DSI Lewis Bashford said: "We can’t say at this time if it’s a boy or a girl and we are still awaiting test results from the placenta found in their car on the M61.
"At the moment, we are still in the position where they have been arrested on suspicion of child neglect and there is a search for the baby.''
"We are looking at open land, outbuildings where they may have placed the baby while they were in the local area before we arrested them.
"There’s nothing to say they were in the caravan, we still think they were living in the outdoor environment and the that is leading us, and the arrest location, to the outdoor search.
"I think, we’ve got to keep the hope that maybe they have allowed somebody else to care for the baby who thinks they are doing some good on behalf of the couple but as we know, as the temperature drops and the longer the baby goes without parents the risks are high."
''Pictures showed officers guarding a shed on an allotment this morning, as they scour a huge area between Brighton and Newhaven - where the couple were spotted a few days ago.''