Rachel Fortune, the mother of Charlotte Bevan who was found dead near her baby Zaani Tiana Bevan Malbrouck after they went missing from a maternity hospital, last night said: “My beautiful daughter and grand-daughter are now at peace.”

The body of a woman found in Avon Gorge in England last night has been formally identified as missing mother Charlotte Bevan, Avon and Somerset Police said.

British police investigating the disappearance of new mother Charlotte Bevan and her baby daughter are searching the area in Avon where a woman's body was discovered last night.

Police searching for a mother and her four-day-old baby who went missing from a Bristol hospital have found a woman’s body in the Avon Gorge.

Police investigating the disappearance of a new mother and her four-day-old baby from hospital have found a body in a gorge, they said tonight.