Sisters whose mother abandoned them BOTH at birth two years apart and grew up without knowing each other existed meet for the first time on Long Lost Family: Born Without A Trace
- Carole Murphy, from London, and Sarah Dunkley are on Long Lost Family tonight
- Sisters were both abandoned at birth but grew up totally unaware of each other
- Both women had a very similar story of being given up by their mother in 1960s
- The pair appear on programme and learn they share same biological parents
- Carole and Sarah are reunited on show and discover they live just 30 miles apart
A pair of sisters who were both abandoned at birth and grew up not knowing that the other existed have met for the first time thanks to ITV’s Long Lost Family: Born Without A Trace.
Sarah Dunkley, from London, was adopted after being abandoned by her mother at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital in the 1960s and contacted the programme makers to learn more about her identity.
On tonight’s show, she discovers she has a full biological sister, Carole Murphy, who shares an almost identical story and was left at a London hospital two years earlier.
Sarah has now revealed she was over the moon when she met her sister, telling the Radio Times: ‘It’s hard to describe, but there was a familiarity. It wasn’t like meeting someone I’d never met before.’
Sarah Dunkley and Carole Murphy, from London, (left and right) who were both abandoned at birth and grew up not knowing that the other existed have met for the first time thanks to ITV’s Long Lost Family: Born Without A Trace
On tonight’s show, Sarah discovers she has a full biological sister, Carole, who shares an almost identical story and was left at a hospital two years earlier
The sisters were amazed by their likeness when they compared pictures of themselves as young girls on the beach at Eastbourne
The sisters were both abandoned at birth and adopted, growing up unaware they had a full biological sibling.
Sarah was resigned to never knowing her mother’s identity, having given up on finding her biological family.
Her adopted parents had told her that her mother had arrived at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital in labour early in the morning but vanished the next day.
She gave doctors and nurses a false name and address.
Sarah was adopted after being abandoned by her mother at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital in the 1960s and contacted the programme makers to learn more about her identity
Sarah explained: ‘I think she was quite brave to go into hospital and give birth knowing she was going to leave me there. I think she was in a desperate place.’
After Sarah contacted the programme, experts were able to locate her sister thanks to a submission of DNA to a national database.
Meanwhile Carole had a very similar story, having been adopted as a baby in the 1960s.
She knew very little of her biological family but knew her mother had left her at a hospital with a man whom she claimed was her husband.
The sisters were both abandoned at birth and were adopted, growing up unaware they had a full biological sibling (left, Carole, and right, Sarah)
The sisters were shocked to learn they had been living as adults just 30 miles from one another (left, Sarah, and right, Carole)
The show breaks the news to the pair that they have a sibling and were both left at hospitals in London just two years apart.
The sisters meet for the first time on the show, and are shocked to learn they have both settled and have been living as adults just 30 miles from one another.
And they are amazed by their likeness when they compare pictures of themselves as young girls on the beach at Eastbourne.
Carole said the pair were over the moon to be united, and revealed they felt an immediate likeness, sharing quite a lot of similar gestures.
The pair will appear on ITV’s Long Lost Family: Born Without A Trace tonight at 9pm.