Occasionally, distressingly, her biological mother would re-enter her life.
Her mother abandoned her in a flat, and it was only days later that someone, alerted by the child’s cries, called the police.įatima spent four months in hospital recovering from malnutrition, and her first 14 years in a series of children’s homes. But for neighbours’ vigilance, she would have died of starvation while still a baby. She said her birth ‘mother’ - who she refers to as ‘that woman’ - was Turkish Cypriot her biological father came from the Greek community of that bitterly divided island.īorn in north London, Fatima was an unwelcome accident, which brought social disgrace. Talking to the camera later on, she said: 'There's been a lot of history that I've forgotten about in my life and when I spoke about it, it brought it to the surface again.'īack in 2011, Fatima spoke to the Daily Mail about her childhood.įatima said: 'There's been a lot of history that I've forgotten about in my life and when I spoke about it, it brought it to the surface again' Hugging her campmates, she added: 'I think you have to have a star in every child's life.' 'What I am trying to say is that she taught me a lot about looking after the other kids and how you give and you receive - I think I have been in here too long, this is why I am getting upset.' Getting emotional, she said: 'She told me, "Fats, I've got to be mum to all you kids, so I can't always be here"'įatima struggles to contain her emotions and said: 'Sorry, I shouldn't have started that conversation.
She continued: 'And this one day I decided to pick all the daffodils and I hid them behind my back and I knocked on the door and when she opened the door, I said "Will you be my mum?" 'I'd look out this little port window and watch when she went home because I would be really sad when she went off-duty.' So sad: She hugged her campmates as she remembered asking a staff member in her children's home to be her mother but she wasn't able to be
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