Police digging up the back garden of Fred and Rose West's paedophile friends are searching for a baby's body, a source close to the investigation said today.
Officers have erected scaffolding and are undertaking excavation work at the property in Cullompton, Devon, where sex offenders David and Pauline Williams, who were jailed last year for a string of historic sexual offences against 10 children, lived.
Police said they were acting on a 'tip off', and a source claimed that officers have been looking for human remains after an allegation was made that a baby had been murdered.
Police have not confirmed the reason for the excavation of the garden, or the nature of the 'new intelligence' received.