A funeral director has offered to pay for a service for the two-month old baby of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon found dead in Brighton this week.
Harry Newington, who runs H J Newington Independent Funeral Directors, made the offer as a way to help mourn the child who was found dead earlier this week.
The young baby, a girl named Victoria, was found dead in Stanmer Villas in Hollingdean earlier this week. Her parents have now appeared in court charged with manslaughter.
Mr Newington, 23, said: “Having formerly lived in Hollingdean I know it has been a shock to everyone within the community.
"I have just had a newborn and yesterday we went and laid flowers, there's hundreds of tributes there and I suppose that's because of the emotions that everyone is feeling.
"We wouldn't want her to go out of this world with nothing. We should come together to do something really."
Mr Newington added that while funerals for newborns are often free, he wanted to fund something further including a hearse and other options not usually included.
The funeral director had previously helped to clean the graves of Babes in the Woods murder victims Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway after a social media appeal from Nicola’s father, Barrie Fellows.
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The huge police search effort included Wild Park, where Nicola and Karen were found dead in 1986.
Marten and Gordon's child was found wrapped in nappies inside a plastic bag after the couple were located and arrested in Brighton on February 28.
The couple were later charged with gross negligence manslaughter after the discovery of the body on March 1.
Police confirmed that they believed the baby had been dead "for some time".
Marten and Gordon were also charged with concealing the birth of a child and perverting the course of justice.
The couple appeared at Crawley Magistrates on Friday ahead of a court date at the Old Bailey in London on March 31.
A statement from the Met Police said: “We can now confirm the baby was a girl and we were told she had been named Victoria.
“A post-mortem examination held on Friday, 3 March, was unable to establish a cause of death and further tests will take place.”
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