COPS are testing placenta present in Constance Marten and her lover Mark Gordon’s automobile to seek out out if their lacking new child is a boy or a lady.
The couple have been final evening discovered by cops in Brighton - with out their child - after 54 days on the run.
The couple have been situated on a residential avenue shortly earlier than 9.30pm and an pressing search continues within the space.
They have been arrested this morning on suspicion of kid neglect.
Cops at the moment are desperately looking for the one-month-old and worry for its welfare.
Police say they're nonetheless hoping the child is alive and have appealed to anyone who may be taking care of the kid to come back ahead.
They consider somebody could also be hiding the child for the couple - and officers are nonetheless uncertain of its gender.
Cops beforehand mentioned the brand new mum had given beginning in her automobile days earlier than the pair fled.
DSI Lewis Bashford from the Met police mentioned: “We are able to’t say presently if it’s a boy or a lady and we're nonetheless awaiting take a look at outcomes from the placenta discovered of their automobile on the M61.
“For the time being, we're nonetheless within the place the place they've been arrested on suspicion of kid neglect and there's a seek for the child.
“We're open land, outbuildings the place they might have positioned the child whereas they have been within the native space earlier than we arrested them.
“There’s nothing to say they have been within the caravan, we nonetheless suppose they have been dwelling within the outside setting and the that's main us, and the arrest location, to the outside search.
“I believe, we’ve bought to maintain the hope that possibly they've allowed anyone else to look after the child who thinks they're performing some good on behalf of the couple however as we all know, because the temperature drops and the longer the child goes with out mother and father the dangers are excessive.”
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“We're asking the general public to stay vigilant within the native areas as they go about their enterprise but additionally to have a look at thepremises that they personal - any outbuildings and their very own property.
“Please take 5 minutes to try these and help us within the seek for the child.”
Miss Marten and Gordon have been reported lacking after their automobile broke down close to Bolton, Larger Manchester, on January 5.
It is believed earlier than they disappeared, Marten withdrew £15,000 of money and the pair purchased burner telephones with a number of sim playing cards.
The pair ditched their burning automobile and a nationwide hunt for the three of them started.
They're believed to have frolicked sleeping tough and travelling the nation utilizing cabs after being noticed shopping for tenting tools from an East London Argos on January 7.
Considerations grew for the lacking aristocrat, 35, and her child, as temperatures throughout the nation plummeted.
Earlier than they have been discovered, the pair have been final seen with their child in Newhaven, East Sussex, on January 9.
CCTV captured photographs of the hooded pair dumping their kid's pram within the port city.
The situation of the child stays unknown.
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