Police investigating the disappearance of a new mother and her four-day-old baby from hospital have found a woman's body in a gorge.
Charlotte Bevan, 30, vanished from Bristol Maternity Hospital on Tuesday with her daughter, Zaani Tiana.
Her family have now been informed of the find yesterday evening in the nearby Avon Gorge but the body has not yet been formally identified, Avon and Somerset Police said.
CCTV footage showed Ms Bevan leaving the hospital coatless and carrying Zaani wrapped in just a blanket.
A police statement added: "The police helicopter remains in the area to assist the continuing searches by police officers on the ground."
Only one body has been found, a spokesman said.
The announcement that a body had been found was made shortly after 11pm last night
Ms Bevan's mother, Rachel Fortune, had appealed for her daughter to get in touch, telling her: "We all really enjoyed seeing you be such a good mother. Let's go forward with that. Please get in touch. We all love you. Just get in touch, please get in touch."
Her boyfriend Pascal Malbrouck, who is Zaani's father, also issued a heartfelt plea for her to "please come back".
Speaking at a press conference he said: "Charlotte, please come back, you're welcome any time. The last two days as a family was amazing and I really want to do that for much longer. I'm waiting for you."
Detective Chief Inspector Simon Crisp said Ms Bevan had been making "great progress" and was due to be discharged from hospital in a day or two.
But she shocked staff by walking out and not telling anyone where she was going.
She left hospital without a coat or shoes, wearing just a pair of hospital slippers, a long black top and black trousers.
Just hours before she went missing, Ms Bevan posted a self-help video on her Facebook page called Get Through Positive And Negative Thinking Rough Patches.
But earlier this month she had posted happy pictures of herself with her baby bump on the social networking site, where she also described herself as a "free spirit".
