Overview
- Theresa Fazzani located her sisters through a Facebook group in July 2025, leading to a reunion within 48 hours and regular contact since.
- The women are piecing together their history as official case files remain sealed until 2073, and they have only recently visited their mother’s grave for the first time.
- In December 1973, their father, Malcolm Barnes, murdered Helen Barnes with a two‑pound hammer, confessed days later, received a life sentence, and served nine years.
- After the killing, Barnes told the children their mother was sleeping and drove them from Newport, Wales, to John O’Groats over five days.
- Following his conviction, Theresa learned Barnes was not her biological father and was sent to live in London, while Janet and the two younger sisters were adopted in Wales.