Woman Arrested as Belfast Lough Baby Search is Called Off

11th May 2012

#BELFAST LOUGH - A woman has been arrested on suspicion of wasting police time after reports of a baby falling overboard from a ferry in Belfast Lough have turned out to be unfounded.

As previously reported on Afloat.ie, a large-scale coastguard search operation was mounted on Wednesday evening after two people were said to have fallen overboard from the Stena Line ferry en route to Belfast from Cairnryan in Scotland.

The woman, who is from Belfast, was recovered from the lough shortly after the alarm was raised and taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital for treatment, according to The Irish Times.

BBC News reports that the search operation was called off "after enquiries with the 37-year-old woman and her family".

A statement from the PSNI said it did "not believe there was a baby in the woman’s care on the ferry". The woman is currently being held at a police station in Belfast.

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