Geneticist solves airport baby riddle

A University researcher has helped a man abandoned at birth in Gatwick airport to trace his genetic roots. Dr Jim Wilson, of the Centre for Population Health Sciences, analysed the man's - to identify where his parents may have come from. Steve Hydes, now 25, was found as a ten day old baby on the floor of a ladies toilet in Gatwick airport. His parents had wrapped him in a blanket and he was well fed and cared-for, but they left no identification or indication of where he might have come from. Searching for roots. Having been adopted and raised in England, Steve is now a father himself and after many years of wondering about his ancestry, he decided to try and trace more details of his background. His story is told in the documentary, Gatwick Baby: Abandoned at Birth, which aired on Wednesday 13 April on analysis that helped Steve to identify where his family originated.