A MAN has appealed for help to find two long-lost siblings he believes were given up for adoption by his mother.

Ian Mizen-Sharp, of Progress Court, Braintree, thinks his brother and sister, who were twins, might have gone to school in the town and could still live nearby.

The 52-year-old was just two when his mother, Joyce Edna Sharp, gave birth to the children at William Julien Courtauld Hospital on December 16, 1966.

He said: “I am hoping they are still alive. They would be 48 now.

“I hope they are in the area. I keep watching all these programmes where people meet up even after 60 years and I just think, ‘I wish that would happen to me.’”

It was only when Joyce died a few years ago that Mr Mizen-Sharp discovered paperwork among her belongings and visited the records office at Braintree Council to find he also had a brother called Mark. 

He said: “They could be anywhere now, but I know they would have been living in Bailey Bridge Road with my mum, I lived in Coronation Avenue with my auntie.”

Both his auntie and father died before Ian could question them.

The former Alec Hunter pupil said a friend who went to John Ray school claimed there were a pair of siblings called Karen and Mark Smyth in the same year, both with fair hair and blue eyes like Ian.

He said: “He got a picture out of the class of 1972 or 1973, and the boy in the picture looked a bit like me, that’s as far as I’ve got.”

Can you help Ian? If so, e-mail bwtnews@nqe.com