Newborn baby found dead in canal ‘may have been in water for up to four days’

The baby boy’s death followed separate discoveries of an abandoned newborn in a Birmingham park and a youngster who was found dead in a Morrisons car park in Bilston last month.

The infant was found in a canal in Willenhall, near Walsall, on Thursday afternoon (Phil Barnett/PA)

A newborn baby found dead in a canal in the UK may have been in the water for up to four days, police have said.

West Midlands Police said the baby boy was discovered by a passer-by in a waterway in Rough Wood Country Park, off Hunts Lane in Willenhall, near Walsall, on Thursday afternoon.