British father reunited with baby son after claiming he had been 'swapped' by hospital staff

A British father and his wife have been reunited with their baby boy after claiming he was swapped by staff at hospital shortly after being born.

Richard Cushworth, 41, and his wife Mercedes Casanellas, 39, had claimed a doctor at a hospital in El Salvador exchanged their child for another as she slept.

They say their suspicions were raised three months later after a DNA test revealed the boy they had taken home was unlikely to be their biological son.

This week they issued an emotional appeal for their child to be returned to them, fearing that he had been sold to human traffickers.

In the video message, Cushworth - who is from Bradford but lives with his wife in Dallas, Texas - said: "God has given us this child and somehow, somebody has taken him from us, and we want him back. It's a horrible situation for me, for her [his wife] for my family, her family."

However, they have now been pictured with the child back in their arms after the story hit global headlines.

It is understood the couple were reunited with their child after DNA testing was carried out on children born in the same hospital on the same day.

Local media had reported that Reyes Guidos, the doctor that delivered the baby, was under investigation after Miss Casanellas filed a lawsuit.

A spokesperson for the country's society of gynaecology and obstetrics said it was not possible for Guidos to be guilty of the alleged crime, because "When an obstetrician performs a normal or C-section childbirth, the newborn is immediately given to the neonatologist-pediatrician and the nurses in the [delivery] room".