A HAMPSHIRE grandmother has launched a bid to bring her baby grandson home from Spain while her daughter waits to be tried for abandoning him.

Carole Eastman wants to bring home three-month-old Hayden so that he can be cared for by his family and is prepared to bring her grandson up herself if her daughter is sent to prison.

Hayden has been in the care of Spanish welfare authorities since the alleged incident on July 22.

His mother Nicola Wren of Fleming Avenue, North Baddesley, and father Nicholas Brown, of Aberdeen, are accused of abandoning him on a balcony at their apartment block near Torremolinos after a drunken row.

The Foreign Office confirms Brown was bailed on August 18 after putting up a bond of 2,000 Euros. He must report to a police station in Malaga every two weeks until his trial date which is yet to be set.

This week Wren was bailed on similar conditions - including that she return to the couple's apartment.

But her mother Carole Eastman, 43, also of North Baddesley, has revealed that she cannot do this because the landlord has taken possession of the apartment.

Instead Wren, who is not permitted to return to England, has opted to stay in prison, where she has said she feels safer.

Mrs Eastman said: "One of the conditions of Nicola's bail is that she returns to her Spanish home and reports to the police station there every two weeks.

"But her apartment has been repossessed. She cannot go back there."

Mrs Eastman, who had hoped to go to Malaga on Monday and return to the UK with her daughter by the end of the week, said her daughter wanted to come home and wanted nothing more to do with Nicholas Brown

She added: "She would rather stay in prison than come out without being able to come home to England."

Mrs Eastman is now desperate to get Hayden home, and has begun proceedings for his return.

"He needs to be with his family," she said.

"I want him to resume a normal life."

Mrs Eastman rushed to Spain to be with the tot after he was taken into care, making repeated visits to the centre for abandoned or ill-treated children to cuddle and play with him before returning home when she ran out of money.

"It was so hard leaving him behind," she said. "His welfare is one of our prime concerns now."

Mrs Eastman, who hopes to return to Spain to visit her daughter again in the next few weeks, added that she would be prepared to bring Hayden up if her daughter was sent to prison following her trial in Spain.

"The ideal situation would be to get them united back in England," she said.

"Nicola misses him dreadfully."

Timeshare sales representatives Wren and Brown are accused of dumping Hayden on a balcony at their apartment block during what police described as a blazing,drunken row.

The baby was found at 3am by a Spanish holidaymaker who thought he had heard a cat mewing. Mrs Eastman said her daughter never intended to abandon the baby.