Link found to dead babies

POLICE in the US have linked a Scottish woman with a trunk in which the mummified remains of a baby and a foetus were found.

Investigators said yesterday the trunk belonged to Janet M Barrie, who emigrated to the US from Scotland in the mid-1920s.

She was the home nurse for a Los Angeles dentist and died in 1992, leaving behind a trunk filled with her belongings and the bodies of two infants wrapped in newspapers.