Dramatic body-cam footage from police officers shows the moment a kidnapped baby was rescued after a 36-hour manhunt.

The five-month-old baby boy had been taken from his home in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, and was tracked down near Birmingham Airport the next day.

The kidnapper James Dempsey, was known to the boy’s mother and took the baby in the early hours of 3 April.

The 35-year-old has now jailed for kidnap and driving offences.

The baby’s mother, Chantelle Forrester, said at the trial it felt like her baby was missing for “a lifetime”.

“I’ll forever be grateful to the officers who brought my baby home,” she said.

Chief Inspector Ian Ingram, from West Midlands Police, said the baby “stayed remarkably calm throughout the ordeal” despite the sirens and blue lights.

″[He] only cried when officers started cleaning him up,” he said.

Dempsey, of Eden Road, Solihull, admitted taking the child without lawful authority, dangerous driving, theft, taking a vehicle and driving without insurance.

He was jailed for 27 months, at Birmingham Crown Court on June 13.