Age: 0
Sex: female
Date: 23 Mar 1951
Place: Ditton Road, Datchet, Berkshire
The body of a newly-born female child was found in a ditch beside the Ditton Road in Datchet on Good Friday, 23 March 1951.
It was found wrapped up inside a piece of bedsheet which was inside a brown paper carrier bag.
It was thought that it had been thrown there from a car.
It was thought that the child had lived for a time.
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see Western Mail - Monday 26 March 1951, p1