A 55-YEAR-OLD woman is due to enter her plea this morning to charges that she concealed the births of four babies.

Bernadette Quirk, formerly of Harlow Close, Sutton Heath, will face Liverpool Crown Court today.

She is charged with four counts of concealing births between January 1, 1985 and August 31, 2009.

The charges relate to the discovery of remains from three babies in a terraced house at Harlow Close, Sutton Heath on Sunday, August 30 last year.

The corpse of a fourth baby was found at grounds near a family grave, in St Helens Cemetery, days later.

In court records, the infants are not named and instead are referred to as Baby One, Baby Two, Baby Three and Baby Four.

Quirk, who was initially arrested in connection with the discoveries last September, was charged in June after a nine-month police investigation.

She is on conditional bail, terms of which state she should not contact Joanne Lee, Catherine Quirk and Christopher Quirk.

The maximum sentence for concealing a birth is two years imprisonment.