Baby found on Wirral golf course 'may have been dead for weeks'

• Detective Chief Superintendent Lee Turner

The body of a baby boy discovered in woods at a golf course could have been there for weeks, police say.

Merseyside Police said the body was found by dog walkers in a wooded area at Brackenwood golf course in Bebington, in Wirral, on Friday 29 January.

Detective Chief Superintendent Lee Turner said: "We are under the impression the baby has probably been dead a number of weeks. It's difficult to determine.

"Obviously it has been really, really cold as of late, we've had snow on the ground and it's been frosty so it's really difficult to determine actually how long ago he unfortunately died, or whether he has been brought to that site immediate after death."

He added that a post-mortem examination of the full-term baby boy around how he died had been inconclusive.

An extensive search of the remote area has been carried out by specialist officers and detectives are urgently trying to trace the baby's mother to check on her welfare.

Police are urging anyone who has any information to contact them immediately.

Anyone with information should call police on 101 or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.