Man who spent decades looking for his birth mum found her dead on bathroom floor | UK News

A man who was finally able to track down his long-lost biological mother found her dead on her bathroom floor.

Steven Smith, 43, was able to find out where his mum Daphne Morfydd lived in March 2021.

But when he turned up at her house, he found the 62-year-old slumped on the bathroom floor at her flat in Bethnal Green.

Steven, from Essex, said: ‘We were still in Covid restrictions, so I tried to call the housing company first to check on her, as no one had heard from her for a while.

‘They said everything was fine, but I had a feeling something wasn’t right. When we got there, I saw big piles of letters – but there was no answer when we knocked on the front door.

‘It was getting really dark and I’m calling Mum’s name, but there’s no reply so I got worried and thought I was going to have to enter

‘I saw her bed covers were ruffled, walked through to the kitchen, turned my head to see if she was OK – but she was there in the bathroom, dead.

‘I turned and ran out in a panic, told my daughter and called 999 – I was having a panic attack and was just hoping it wasn’t her, but I still felt awful – all these emotions going through my head.’

Steven was placed into foster care and adopted by a young couple shortly after he was born.

But he is now desperate to understand who is biological family is.

He said: ‘I spent years looking – and I was hoping for a miracle.’

His prayers then started to be answered in 2020 when he took an ancestry DNA test – and discovered his half-brother lived half an hour away.

This led to his discovery that Steven is the oldest of eight children – but he is still hoping to find his long-lost dad for closure.

He said: ‘I just want to try and find the last bit and locate my dad’s identity and find out who I am and where I’ve come from.

‘I have one letter which is a pre-adoption report, which tells me my dad went by the name of Frank and at the time of my birth he was in prison.’

He added: ‘I don’t think there’s much support for adopted people.

‘You are just adopted and that is it – you are not really given much else.

‘I only found out about all these tools to find my biological family through my own research.

‘There is not a lot of thorough support offered for people who are adopted, and I think that needs to change.’

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