Niki Weadon was left on the steps of a tower block in 1987 as a baby, she handed over to a police officer - also called Niki and in the latest episode of Long Lost Family the two are reunited as the former strives to discover where she came from.
The pair meet up on the housing estate where Niki Wheadon was abandoned. Although the tower block where she was found has now been demolished, Niki meets with the police officer who was on duty when she was left as a baby. The former police officer says: “I remember being on shift and then, a woman ran up to me and handed me something. I was shocked to discover that it was a baby.” The woman who did hand over baby Niki was not, in fact, her birth mother. Read about the Welshman who appeared on Long Lost Family after he was left wrapped in a paper bag, here.
Niki discovers that the police station, where she was left, was directly opposite the tower block where she was found. This provides her with some comfort. Niki describes how her police officer name-sake “means a lot” to her. Niki, now 33, lives in Essex and is married with two children of her own, at three months old she was adopted as the only child of Graham and Cathy Harvey and told viewers that she had a "happy childhood".
