Two brothers who had no idea each other existed have met for the first time after a drunken revelation at a party brought their lives together.
Lee Langton, 55, was at a party with his aunt when she made an off-hand comment about his older brother. Not knowing who she was referring to at the time, it sparked a journey of discovery that has changed his life ever since.
“I was at a party quite a few years ago at my auntie Liz’s house in south London,” Lee, who lives in Staines-Upon-Thames, told the M.E.N. “I thought she meant my younger brother, and I said ‘no, I haven’t seen him in a long time’. She turned to me and said ‘no, I mean Richard’.