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A couple have been arrested in connection with the murder of a baby boy they were trying to adopt.
One-year-old Leiland Corkill was taken into care soon after his birth in December 2019.
He later lived with prospective adoptive parents in Barrow-in-Furness, but on January 6 paramedics were called to a property amid reports a baby had suffered a serious head injury.
Leiland was taken to Alder Hey Children s Hospital in Liverpool but died the following day.
A 34-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of murder, assault, ill-treatment and neglect, police said on Saturday.
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