A woman who felt orphaned when her adoptive mother died in 2010 has been reunited with her birth mother after 44 years more than 7,000 miles away thanks to a Facebook group.
When Katherine Samwell-Smith, 45, who first met her adoptive parents when she was six months old on a luggage trolley at Gatwick Airport in 1977, became a mother, her yearning to find the woman who handed her over to an orphanage in Santiago, Chile, gathered pace.
