Gaynor finds long lost brother

Gaynor Tumulty is 44 and had not once been in touch with older family members who lost all contact when her mother moved up North before she was even born.

Gaynor knew her brothers David and Ronald Bowen, both in their late 50's, had lived in the Bexhill area and asked if anyone out there knew anything about them.

She believed her older brothers had no idea that she even existed, because they had stayed as teenagers in London when the family split up. There are other siblings - three brothers Christopher, Michael and Keith, and sisters Tina and Donna

As a result of information passed to Sussex Police, Gaynor has now spoken with Ronald, 56, who was found as a patient at the Royal Sussex Hospital.

Gaynor has telephoned him several times and is now trying to organise for him to visit her and other family in Manchester.

She said this week; "They found him. I have spoken to him...It does feel strange because he never knew I existed.

"I spoke to him and said - I am the little sister you didn't know you had.

"He said he knew there was Christopher but he didn't know there was anybody else. He seemed thrilled to have family he never knew he had, at the age of 56.

"He has just found a family he never knew he had.

"What I am trying to do now is get him down to Manchester. He has got no family down in Brighton, so I told him - you have a whole family down here. I am trying to get him to travel down to Manchester. I am still looking for David - the police found one David Bowen but it was not the right one."