The heartbreaking story of the baby boy left on the doorstep of a vicarage in Bramley has had a huge impact on the local community.
United by grief, people came together after the tragic discovery on November 23, 2016, and named the tragic infant Baby Peter, after St Peter's Church where he was found.
Five years on, the community gathered again to finally lay him to rest, just yards from where he was discovered.
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The baby boy died shortly after he was found on the doorstep of the vicarage at St Peter's. He appeared to be lifeless and was inside a Tesco bag for life, wrapped in a blue striped towel and a men’s white 15-inch collar shirt from clothing company Dunnes.
He was given CPR by paramedics and taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Tragically, the mother has never been found, despite numerous appeals from West Yorkshire Police.
'Baby Peter: Cherished by the community'
In November 2021, a small ceremony at St Peter's Church, presided over by Rector Paul Crabb, marked the burial of Baby Peter's ashes in the graveyard.
A tree was planted alongside a plaque bearing the simple eulogy: "Baby Peter: cherished by the community."
Labour councillor Kevin Ritchie, who represented the Bramley ward in 2016 and was involved in funding for the tree, remembered: "It was a real shock at the time and there was a lot of grief.
"There were lots of tributes paid and flowers and teddy bears laid at the church.
"It brought people together and showed the empathy that the community had.
Watch: 2012 Baby Peter appeal by West Yorkshire Police
"There was a lot of concern for the mother and we've never found out what happened and how she is so it's still in a lot of people's thoughts.
"Planting the tree and the ceremony we had reinforced that community feeling."
Cllr Ritchie explained the ashes had only just been buried as they had been at a funeral directors waiting for "various permissions".
A small gravestone will also be placed in the graveyard to mark Baby Peter's memory.
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