Brown and Cameron in angry clash over probe into baby’s death

BRITISH prime minister Gordon Brown voiced outrage yesterday at the brutal abuse of a baby boy and a local authority’s failure to spot his fatal ordeal, as the case escalated into a political row.

The child — identified only as Baby P — was 17 months old when he died in a blood-spattered cot in August last year, having spent much of his life being used as “a punchbag”.

Social workers, police and health professionals failed to save him despite 60 visits over eight months, during which time he suffered more than 50 horrific injuries.