Long Lost Family viewers were in tears tonight as a pair of siblings who were finally reunited discovered the heartbreaking reason as to why they were abandoned.
This evening, David McBride and Helen Ward appeared on the programme in a bid to find out who their parents were after 50 years.
David had been left in the front seat of a car on the outskirts of Belfast in January 1962, while Helen was found on the other side of the Irish border in a telephone box in Dundalk six years later.
Each time, they were discovered in a tartan bag but their cases weren't connected until now by the Long Lost Family team. After both took a DNA test, David and Helen discovered that they were full brother and sister.
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