‘They want the truth’: Meet the woman who finds the graves of stillborn babies

Paula Jackson at the grave of Zoe Karen Gentle in Aldershot military cemetery, which she located for a friend living in Australia. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

A woman who has helped find the final resting places of nearly 3,500 stillborn babies has said barriers remain to bereaved parents seeking the truth about their children’s fate.

Paula Jackson set up the charity Brief Lives – Remembered in 2004 after helping a friend based in Australia find the grave of his twin sister, named Zoe, who was stillborn in Aldershot military hospital in 1960.