My psychic link to long-lost sis

They both worked in medicine – Maureen was an NHS nurse – and each have three sons and one daughter.

Keith said: “My daughter is Bethan and Maureen’s is Bethany.

“I’ve always been interested in nature versus nurture. Meeting Maureen has reinforced my belief in nature.”

After meeting Keith in the UK, Maureen said: “We were just meant to find each other.”

Fans of the heart-warming Baftawinning series presented by Davina Mccall and Nicky Campbell will hear about Keith’s harrowing childhood.

Born out of wedlock, he grew up with his mum Betty’s distant relatives in the Brecon Beacons in Wales.

Keith was eight when he found out he was adopted. A kid called him a “bastard” during a playground fight.

He thought his birth parents did not want or love him.

Keith migrated to Australia 40 years ago. He said: “I wanted to be anonymous. I felt unwanted.”

He never met his dad David Ashton, who had Maureen and her brother Julian, now 51, with another woman. Maureen, of Cheltenham, Gloucs, was 14 when she found out about her half-brother and had been looking for him ever since.

Maureen now speaks to Keith three or four times a week.

She said: “I still can’t get over the similarities between us.

“I wanted Keith to know that our dad had always wanted to be a part of his life.”

Keith hopes Bethan, 41, and Bethany, 31, will meet one day.

After more research he also found his birth mum had kept tabs on him and that he has a half-sister named Karen Dolan, who lives in Glasgow.

Keith said: “Maureen and Julian gave me a little model aeroplane that our father had made aged 14.

“My favourite hobby growing up was to build model aeroplanes. It’s like being a jigsaw puzzle. All my pieces are being filled in. I’m now complete. When Maureen first showed me photos all I could think was ‘This is my father’. “I felt like crying. It was a feeling coming up from my very soul. “For the first time in my life I looked like someone else. It was an incredibly emotional and special moment. “My one regret was that I couldn’t sit down with him and put my arm around him. I feel the same about Betty.” “All of the sense of shame and guilt has gone. I feel at peace with myself.”

Long Lost Family continues Tuesday, 9pm, ITV.