Touching moment man, 59, who was abandoned at Reading station at 2 weeks old finally meets a biological relative, a first cousin - and she was also left as a baby on the steps of a Dublin church WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD READ MORE: Woman, 55, whose 'real life Paddington Bear' story saw her abandoned at six weeks old at Euston station tells Long Lost Family 'you're never the same after knowing your birth mother left you' By Jessica Green and Alanah Khosla For Mailonline Published: 22:11 BST, 10 June 2024 | Updated: 22:23 BST, 10 June 2024 e-mail View comments This is the emotional moment a man who was abandoned when he was just two weeks old finally met one of his biological relatives, a first cousin - and shockingly, she was also left as a baby on the steps of a church. Thomas Yeo, 59, of Nottingham , was found in the waiting room of Reading Station on October 15, 1965. He was left well-dressed and tucked under a bench with a spare nappy and bottle.
Growing up, he had always known he was happily adopted, but it was only when he became a father himself that Thomas decided to find out more about his start in life - and was shocked discover he had been abandoned as a two-week-old. He enlisted the help of ITV 's Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace, with the team eventually discovering the identity of Thomas' first cousin, Martina Evenden. Astonishingly, Martina explained how she was found on the steps of a church in Dublin two years after Thomas, in 1967, after being left there wh.
