Couple questioned about abduction of baby boy

BRITISH police were last night continuing to question a young couple arrested in connection with the abduction of an eight-month-old child found abandoned at a Carlow Cathedral on Friday.

The couple, a 22-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man, were arrested in north Wales on Saturday. It is believed they had recently disembarked from a ferry from Ireland.

The little boy was found safe and well at the cathedral after being taken from his legal guardian’s home in Nottinghamshire on Thursday. It was believed the child’s mother – who is no longer the legal guardian – and her partner may have been in Ireland.