A GRANDFATHER who was kidnapped at 10 weeks old has learned the truth about his dark past.
Peter Macdonald, 58, was set to move to London with his mother and brother Trevor to escape their father.
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But the man they were trying to flee from reached the train before it departed and grabbed his son.
It was the final time Peter ever saw his mother.
A few weeks later, his father placed him in foster care, but he only found out when he was seven.
He now lives in Accrington, Lancashire, where he works as a painter and decorator.
“I was in her arms, I was two-and-a-half months old,” he recounted.
“I’ve never seen my mother again. That was the last time I was with my brother Trevor.
“I’ve always wanted to find him.”
Trevor’s daughter Chloe contacted ITV show Long Lost Family to try and help her widowed father reunited with his brother.
Peter’s mother tragically died in 2008 but a potential match for his long lost brother yielded success.
The emotional reunion is set to air this week after Peter’s mother prophetically told Trevor to “Find Peter” before she died.
Peter said in the documentary: “My father grabbed me off my mother. I was in her arms, I was two-and-a-half months old.
“I’ve never seen my mother again. That was the last time I was with my brother Trevor.
“I’ve always wanted to find him.
“Hearing that Trevor had been found… I’ve never taken drugs in my life, but it felt like I’d just had a load of drugs.
“Everything was just ‘wow’. It was amazing. I can’t explain it.”
Trevor, 61, a carpenter who lives with his partner in East London, added: “My mother didn’t speak about him a great deal but when she did speak about him she often wondered how he was.
“When my mum got very ill, she started to talk a lot more, open up a lot more.
“You could see it in her face when she spoke about it.
“She always said she regretted it, not going back for him.
“She never forgot you…She did say to me: ‘Find him, look for him’. A week or so later she passed away.”
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