Baby Elsa found in a shopping bag in freezing cold is the third infant abandoned by the same parents

A BABY girl found in a shopping bag in London this year is the third child abandoned by the same parents, it can now be reported.

- Anna Davis

Baby "Elsa" was found in Newham by a dog walker on January 18 in sub-zero temperatures. DNA tests have established that Elsa is the sibling of two babies, a boy and a girl, found in very similar circumstances in 2017 and 2019.

Despite appeals by the Metropolitan Police, their parents have not been identified. The BBC and PA Media applied to the East London Family Court for reporting restrictions to be changed to allow the sibling link to be reported. Judge Carol Atkinson ruled restrictions should be lifted to allow the reporting of the relationship between the children, claiming it was needed for the "openness of justice".

The DNA testing showed that baby Elsa has a brother and sister known as Baby Harry and Baby Roman.