Julie meet Julie...sisters didn't know each other existed until DNA test

TWO sisters who did not know of each other's existence met after more than 60 years following a DNA test.

-  Anahita Houssein-Pour

Julie Mamo, 66, and Julie Ansell, 64 now known by family as "Julie 1" and "Julie 2" were unaware until their nephew, Jason Fisher, wanted to learn more about his ethnic heritage last year.

The pair had never met as their mother, Lillian Fisher, was 17 years old and unmarried when she gave birth to Ms Mamo, in Dover in 1956, and faced pressure to give her up for adoption.

Ms Mamo moved to Australia as a child with her new family, inset, after being adopted from nine days old.

Lillian later went on to have four more children, calling the eldest Julie, who lives in St Margaret's Bay, Kent.