A baby boy, born with a deformed face and a cleft palate at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital, who died last week after being abandoned by his parents is yet to be buried.

Dr Wilmut said his own research while producing Dolly, the first cloned sheep, at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, showed that the experiments might result in dozens of deformed babies.

If the decision went the other way, the baby was exposed – deliberately abandoned outside. This usually happened to deformed babies, or when the father did not think that the family could ...