{"id":475697,"date":"2026-03-14T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475697\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:56:08","slug":"murder-arrest-after-newborn-baby-dies-in-fall-in-central-london-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475697\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder arrest after newborn baby dies in fall in central London | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a baby died following a fall from a height in central London.<\/p>\n

Officers were called to an address on Horseferry Road, Westminster, at roughly 7.30am on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The baby girl, 18 days old, suffered serious injuries and was pronounced dead in hospital, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

A 43-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of murder at the scene and taken into police custody, where she remains.<\/p>\n

Detective Chief Inspector Alison Foxwell, who is leading the Met’s investigation, said the force “believes the incident occurred within a domestic context”.<\/p>\n

Two forensics officers could be seen working at a window in a flat on the Peabody Estate on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

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A police cordon is in place covering most of Great Peter Street, just off Horseferry Road.<\/p>\n

Running from Lambeth Bridge to Greycoat Place, Horseferry Road is a major thoroughfare in Westminster.<\/p>\n

The street is home to government buildings, including the Department for Transport’s offices, as well as Channel 4’s headquarters and multiple residential addresses.<\/p>\n

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DCI Foxwell said in a statement: “Our thoughts today are with the baby’s family. The death of an infant is always an extremely tragic occurrence, and officers are making urgent enquiries around the circumstances.”<\/p>\n

Anybody with information is urged to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a baby died following a fall from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-475697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}