Three stunned Wolverhampton brothers have just discovered a 75-year-old sister they did not know existed.

Peter, 72, and 64-year-old twins Les and Malcolm Jones met Jessie Dare – who was adopted before they were born and brought up 100 miles away in Wales – for the first time this week.

The trio – who have lived all their lives in Wednesfield – said: “Mum and dad had kept the secret of our sister for 75 years and taken it to their graves – so the meeting was very emotional with lots of tears.”

It came days after Peter received a bombshell phone call revealing the missing piece of the family jigsaw.

Read the full story in the Express & StarThree stunned Wolverhampton brothers have just discovered a 75-year-old sister they did not know existed.

Peter, 72, and 64-year-old twins Les and Malcolm Jones met Jessie Dare – who was adopted before they were born and brought up 100 miles away in Wales – for the first time this week.

The trio – who have lived all their lives in Wednesfield – said: “Mum and dad had kept the secret of our sister for 75 years and taken it to their graves – so the meeting was very emotional with lots of tears.”

It came days after Peter received a bombshell phone call revealing the missing piece of the family jigsaw.He said: “I was dumbstruck. Neither my brothers nor I had a clue that Jessie existed and I thought it was a wind up – but as soon as I saw her all those doubts disappeared because she has our mother’s eyes.”

The shock call came from Jessie’s oldest son Charlie who tracked down his mother’s missing kith and kin after she got a copy of her original birth certificate.

The 51-year-old saw she had been born in Wolverhampton and discovered through the city’s bereavement services that a couple with the same names as her parents were buried at Bushbury cemetery in 1992.

He traced the stonemason who had made the headstone for their grave and got the phone number of the person who had placed the order 15 years ago.

Charlie arranged for his mother to visit Peter but did not tell her where they were going. Jessie’s brothers took her to the grave of their parents and gave her a picture of the couple – the first she had ever seen.

Jessie, a widow with three children, said at her home in Newport, South Wales: “I thought he was just taking me for a drive and assumed we were going to London because he picked me up so early in the morning.

“Meeting my brothers and their families was one of the happiest days of my life – I still have not come back down to earth yet. I was a bag of nerves when I met them all but we got on like a house on fire.”

Jessie was adopted as a toddler and brought up in Newport as Jess Cleaver.

By John Scott