A Florida court has refused to reduce the £250,000 bond held on the mother of a missing two-year-old girl, hours after pictures emerged of her partying a week into the toddler's disappearance.

Casey Anthony is being held on suspicion of child neglect, making false statements and obstructing an investigation.

Police say the 22-year-old mother lied to them and didn't report daughter Caylee missing for more than a month.

She hasn't been charged with her daughter's disappearance, but prosecutors call her a person of interest in what is beginning to look like a murder investigation.

The 5th District Court of Appeal denied Anthony's request to lower her bonds to £5,000 but her attorney said she planned to appeal to the Florida Supreme Court.

Pictures have emerged showing Anthony, from Orlando, partying on June 20. But on July 15 she went to police and told them Caylee had been missing since June 9.

The photos show Casey Anthony smiling and posing with various people at an Orlando club.

In transcripts of a 911 call, Caylee's grandmother tells an operator she thought her own daughter's car had been used to transport a body.

"There's something wrong," Cindy Anthony told the operator.

"I found my daughter's car today, and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car."

In three 911 calls, she said she wanted to press charges against her daughter Casey, 22, for "grand theft", then in a second call she said she had someone in her home who needed to be arrested in relation to a missing toddler.

Casey Anthony claims her babysitter took the child and she did not report the girl missing for a month because she thought she could find the pair.


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