In 1994, 'Baby Abbie' was snatched from her cot at just three hours old by a woman posing as a nurse
A woman who was snatched from her cot as a newborn baby by a woman pretending to be a nurse has died at the age of 30.
READ MORE: Pedestrian who died when hit by car in Wexford had left her car in nearby lay-by: 'It's tragic coming up to Christmas'She was not aware she had been kidnapped until she was aged 10-years-old when she discovered her story during a house move when she found a message from Princess Diana. Abbie's family has been haunted by tragedy in the decades since the kidnap. Abbie’s mother Karen died of breast cancer in 2020, several years after the family had left the UK for a new life in New Zealand.
Police had been tipped off that a former dental nurse called Julie Kelley, living there with her boyfriend and his mother, had been pregnant and expecting a boy. When she came home with a girl, neighbours became suspicious.
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