'I finally met my mum after 64 years and I had something I had to tell her'

As the old adage goes, a picture is worth a thousand words – and for pensioner Judy Kenyon, the phrase could not resonate more.

There is a black-and-white snap among the 64-year-old’s family collection that sits proudly on a shelf in her front room – of her as a newborn baby being held by her birth mother Gina.

Judy had never seen herself as a newborn until this year, when she finally tracked down the 84-year-old who was forced to give her up.