Newborn baby is taken off mum after she flees to Ireland

A mum who fled to Ireland while pregnant to stop social services snatching her sixth child had him taken from her by police yesterday when he was just an hour old.

Emily Burgess, 32, from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, gave birth to Isaac at Wexford County Hospital.

The newborn is being held under police protection by Irish Garda.

The child's father, Keith Clifford, 36, had been sentenced to five years for child cruelty in 1997.

Miss Burgess began a relationship with him in 2004 and they had two children, but split up during this pregnancy.

She said he never harmed their children.

Pal Pauline Goodwin, 39, said: "It has never been suggested Emily is any threat to the baby. To take an hour old baby away from her is evil."