A Coventry University professor abandoned as a baby had her efforts to find her family taken on by ITV show Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace. Liz Deutsch was just six weeks old when she was left under a hedge in Birmingham . Liz was carefully dressed in hand-knitted clothes and a hand-knitted blanket, placed in a shopping basket and left next to Edgbaston Croquet Club on Richmond Hill Road.
Her mother was never traced and she was placed into long-term foster care where she remained until the age of 16. Since then she has navigated her own path, from studying A-Levels to completing a PhD at The University of Manchester. She went on to become a Professor of Nursing Practice as part of a collaboration between the Coventry University Research Centre for Care Excellence (CCE) and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust .
READ MORE: Hundreds gather to remember Keaton Slater as family says Coventry has been 'unbelievable' Liz first contacted the Long Lost Family team to be part of the ITV show four years ago, and they took on the challenge of finding the answers she had longed for since childhood. She would receive an email each year saying they were still searching and would update her when they had made a breakthrough, which happened in October 2023. Liz said she received a phone call from the series' producer who suggested filming, which led to the final production shown on ITV .
She said: “I said I was not going to watch it as I was very nervous about seei.
