EPPING FOREST: Police deny search for buried mobile phones

4:12pm Wednesday 19th November 2008

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REPORTS that police are looking for a mobile phone with video images of Baby P's death in Epping Forest have been denied by the Met.

The Sun newspaper claimed the 15-year-old girlfriend of one of the people convicted of the infant's death told them a mobile phone and blood stained clothes had been buried in Epping Forest.

A police spokeswoman said: "I can confirm that we are not searching for a mobile phone in Epping Forest. There wasn't any evidence in court of a mobile being buried in Epping Forest."

Baby P died in a bloodstained cot in Tottenham on August 3 last year.

The 17-month- old child had been abused for eight months before August and had been seen by health professionals 60 times over that period.

Haringey council apologised for the child's death last Thursday (November 13) following mounting pressure from politicians and the media.

A BBC Panorama documentary aired on Wednesday (November 17) accused Haringey council of preventing Baby P from being taken into foster care and over-ruling its own social workers.

The results of an inquiry will be presented to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls on December 1.

Baby P's 27-year-old mother has pleaded guilty of causing or allowing the death of her child.

The mother's 32-year-old live-in boyfriend, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and their lodger Jason Owen, 36, from Bromley in south east London, pleaded to the same charges.