Baby Brandon is home as parents fight on

Baby Brandon arrived home to kisses, cheers, balloons and a giant Winnie the Pooh toy.

Even before he was born, the tot was at the centre of a high-profile court case that still sees his parents living under the cloud of child abuse allegations in connection with their three other children.

But yesterday, family members waited anxiously outside a terraced house at Cromer and

then smothered the five-month-old baby with presents and affection as he was taken into the home he had never known.

And as his grandmother covered him in kisses, the rest of the family vowed to carry on the fight to clear their name.

Nicky and Mark Webster fled to Ireland in May for Brandon's birth for fear that he, like their three other children, would be forcibly adopted because of child abuse allegations.

Eventually they agreed to return to Britain to try to prove their innocence and to fight in the courts to keep their baby.

Last week, a gagging order on the case was lifted and a High Court judge ruled the family could leave a residential assessment centre, where they were monitored by social services, and return home.

But it was also revealed the other children - known as A, B and C - were put into care by the courts because of evidence of physical injury, emotional upset and concerns they were at risk of “significant harm”.

According to the Norfolk County Council papers published after the hearing, child B had suffered six fractures, including a rib fracture caused by “forceful squeezing” and other fractures caused by “forceful twisting”, while child A had suffered “clinical and emotional harm”.

Despite the initial jubilation at being able to take Brandon home, the Websters have a long way to go before they can settle back into normality.

While Brandon is home for now, a final court case in June with a different judge will determine the baby's fate once and for all.

Mr Webster, 33, said: “In a way this is only the beginning for us. We've been called child abusers, and we're not. There's no way we want Brandon to grow up thinking that and with people around him thinking that. That's why we're determined to fight all the way.

“While it's great to be back here with Nicky and Brandon, we're still very wary.

“We don't know what social services are going to say or do next, so it's a waiting game. We're just going to take it day by day, because they can still turn around and try and take him back.”