Baby death case mother flies home

The British woman caught trying to smuggle the body of her dead baby out of the United States flew home yesterday. Caroline Beale, 32, was driven from Gatwick airport to a London hospital where she will receive a year's psychiatric treatment as part of the sentence imposed by a New York court on Monday.

Her return ends an 18-month ordeal which began when she was arrested at Kennedy Airport in September 1994 and charged with murder after her baby girl's body was found in a plastic bag under her coat. After eight months in jail and a further 10 months of legal wran- gling she admitted manslaughter in a plea bargain.