Police find body of baby Zaani: Tragedy as six-day-old girl is discovered dead yards from body of her mother after walker spotted hospital slippers and child's blanket at the top of cliff

 

Teams were searching for newborn Zaani today after her mother Charlotte Bevan, 30, together left, was found dead in the Avon Gorge in Bristol last night. Specialist rescue officers, right, this afternoon found the child's body on a cliff face overlooked by the Clifton Suspension Bridge, centre, close to where her mother died. Miss Bevan had walked out of the Bristol Maternity Hospital wearing thin hospital slippers and no coat, with her daughter wrapped in just a blanket at 9pm on Tuesday. A walker found Miss Bevan's slippers and the baby's blanket at the top of the cliff and called the police. CCTV footage showed the charity worker walked past at least four nurses and out of the hospital without anyone stopping her. University Hospitals Bristol Trust said today they would launch a 'thorough review' into the care Charlotte and Zaani Tiana received, including security on the postnatal ward.
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