The mother of Baby P, the North London toddler who died after suffering horrific abuse, has given birth to another baby while on remand over the death.

The mother is reported to be taking legal action to gain access to her latest child. She has also told friends that she will be home in time for Christmas, a police source said.

The mother, her boyfriend and a lodger are to be sentenced at the Old Bailey on December 15 for causing or allowing the death of Baby P, who had more than 50 injuries, including a broken back. They face jail terms of up to 14 years each.

The new baby - a girl - was taken into care hours after she was born, under police guard, in March. This was only seven months after her baby brother died, the Daily Record reported this morning.

The mother was returned to jail, and the minimal contact she had with her daughter reportedly ceased two months ago, the newspaper said. The custody hearing is due to be held after she is sentenced over the death of Baby P.

"She showed no remorse and showed off about how she watched porn while her boyfriend abused the child," a prison source is reported to have said.

"She described her bloke as 'a bit of a nutter' as if it was all quite funny. She said she loved him so would just let him get on with whatever he wanted to do."

It is claimed that the woman, who has three other children, was moved to isolation in prison for her own safety after boasting about her crime.

A police source has also told The Times that the mother, who cannot be named because of a legal order, had not shown any remorse: "None of them appear to be worried or sorry about what happened to the baby. They all feel very sorry for themselves but have not shown any remorse at all. The mother thinks she will be home in time for Christmas."

The Times has also learnt that Haringey Council, sharply criticised after the death of Victoria Climbie eight years ago, failed to hand over all the information in their possession about Baby P to murder squad detectives.

It was only when the trial got to court and the judge requested that they provide all their evidence that police officers were able to see everything they had.

A senior source involved in the inquiry said: "The council came in with pages and pages of stuff that we had no idea existed and had never seen before."

As well as information relating to the trial, police sources also said that they did not find out about one hospital visit involving Baby P until long after the event. The doctor was so worried about the bruises and other injuries to the baby that he contacted social services. No-one told the police.

The source said: "There was loads of stuff, whether it would have made a difference we will never know. What we do know is the social workers never gave us all the information and a lot of people believe there should be a public inquiry into what went wrong."

A spokeswoman for the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that the council had not given full information about the case: "We can confirm that not everything was disclosed until the judge requested that everything should be disclosed at the beginning of the trial."

Aware that they were going to be criticised, Haringey council offered media training, which can cost thousands of pounds, to their main members of staff and even asked the Metropolitan Police if they wanted training as well.

Despite 60 visits to the youngster nobody from the council thought that the injuries were severe enough for him to be removed from the family.

They did place the baby temporarily with a family friend but this decision was also criticised by police. An officer said: "How can you give a baby to a family friend. For all we knew that friend may have been involved in any abuse or maybe the friend was scared of the mother and would not say anything detrimental about her.

"We wanted that baby taken into care but we were over-ruled by the council."

Today an urgent inquiry began into Haringey Council's handling of the case.

Children’s Secretary Ed Balls ordered the inquiry by Ofsted, the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection and the Chief Inspector of Constabulary after receiving a report detailing a string of failings involved in the case of Baby P.

Mr Balls said the review - due to make an initial report by December 1 - would involve a "thorough inspection" of all services responsible for safeguarding children in Haringey.

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