Police investigate after 'unexplained' death of newborn baby at home

Police launch investigation after newborn baby is found dead at home – with officers treating death as ‘unexplained’

  • Wiltshire Police were called in the early hours of yesterday morning, August 1
  • The newborn baby died at home in Holbein Close, Grange Park, in Swindon 
  • They stayed at the scene for over 30 hours as they investigate cause of death
  • Wiltshire Police have not yet released any details of the baby’s age and sex

Police are investigating the ‘unexplained’ death of a newborn baby at home, it has today been reported.

Wiltshire Police officers were called to the address in Swindon after receiving reports of the death in the early hours of yesterday morning, August 1. 

They stayed at the address in Holbein Close, Grange Park, which is to the west of Swindon, for over 30 hours, according to The Sun. 

Ambulance crews attended but paramedics told the police that the baby had died.

Wiltshire Police officers were called to Holbein Close, Grange Park, in Swindon, after a newborn baby died at home 

Wiltshire Police have not yet released details about the baby’s age and sex.

Police are investigating the cause of the baby’s death and it is being treated as ‘unexplained’.

Enquiries continue and a crime scene remains in place. 

A spokesperson for Wiltshire Police told the Sun: ‘We were called by the ambulance service to a report of a death of a newborn baby at an address in Grange Park in the early hours of Monday morning.

‘Enquiries are currently ongoing and the death is currently being treated as unexplained.’ 

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