Siblings reunited in Pontefract after 'joke' DNA test

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Farrah Khilji-Holmes, from Pontefract and Steve Bolton, from Canada, met after taking online DNA test.

A woman who discovered she had a half-brother after taking a DNA test for "a joke" has met with her new-found sibling for the first time.

The results revealed a close match with a man called Steve Bolton, in Canada, and when the two spoke they realised they had the same father.The 52-year-old said: "I did the DNA test as a joke really, because I was sure that I must have been swapped at birth. This was the last thing I expected.

 

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