LONG LOST FAMILY: BORN WITHOUT A TRACE
STV, 9pm
AN already astonishing case of two foundling siblings is reopened in this special episode, which reveals even more incredible secrets.
Just over 18 months ago, DNA revealed that David McBride and Helen Ward, each abandoned as babies on either side of the Irish border, were full brother and sister.
David was left in the front seat of a car on the outskirts of Belfast in 1962, wrapped in a shawl and placed in a tartan bag. Helen was left six years later, in Dundalk, in a phone box, also placed in a tartan bag.
After meeting David, Helen said: “After 51 years, it’s a miracle.”
But three months later, the search team identified their birth parents, which uncovered news of half-siblings and suspicions about another Irish foundling.
Expert shoulder-to-cry-on Davina McCall says: “We thought the case of David and Helen was solved but new information keeps coming to light that we could never have imagined.”