A blonde-haired, blue-eyed seven year-old girl has been put into care after being taken from a Roma family in Dublin.

Greece is holding an emergency nationwide fraud investigation into birth certificates sparked by the case of the young girl found living in a gypsy camp.

A Roma couple accused of abducting a mystery four-year-old girl dubbed the “blonde angel” by Greek media told a court that her biological mother willingly gave her to them as a baby because she could not look after her.

A couple have been remanded in custody, charged with the abduction of a mystery blonde girl in Greece known as 'Maria'.