Steven Hydes (born 1986), sometimes known as Steve Hydes, was found as an abandoned baby at the south terminal of
Gatwick airport in London on 10 April 1986 by a duty-free sales assistant, Beryl Wright. Hydes was initially called ''Gary Gatwick'' after a
plush toy bear sold in an airport giftshop that had been given to him by airport staff soon after his discovery. His case was widely publicised in the UK and elsewhere at the time. The baby was subsequently adopted and given the name Steven Hydes.
Despite extensive searching by Hydes and others for more than a quarter century little or no information had turned up about Hydes' origins. Hydes has been featured on several TV programmes and was the subject of a documentary produced by the
BBC. In May 2019 Hydes announced on his Facebook page that through help from genetic genealogists he had found his birth family but his biological mother had already died. His biological father and his siblings were unaware of his existence.
Hydes resides in
Sussex
Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
with his partner Sammy and children Alanna and Kian.
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Facebook Page*
1986 births
Living people
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