SISTERS who were separated after their dad murdered their mum with a hammer have reunited — 51 years later.
Theresa Fazzani and Janet Brocklehurst found mother Helen dead at home in Newport, South Wales in December 1973.
Father Malcolm Barnes confessed and got life.
Theresa was sent to live with her biological dad in London when it was discovered Barnes was her stepfather.
Janet and the girls’ two younger sisters were adopted in Wales.
Theresa, 59, decided to try to trace them last July and managed to do so in 48 hours through a Facebook group.
She said: “I’ve met them all. It was like I’d got a missing part of me back. Me and Janet are never off the phone.”
Janet said she had tried to look for Theresa in 2022, by looking through her mother’s documents to find Theresa’s surname.
However, she ended up being too scared to reach out.
She said: “I thought she might hate me because of what my father did, and I thought that if I truly mattered to her, she would be looking for me and that somehow it would come together, and it did.”
When Janet got the call from Theresa, she was in complete shock.
“I couldn’t believe it, I was overwhelmed and so relieved,” she said.
