Overview

• In 1995, Cheryl Thomasgood, then 34, left the Isle of Wight and her three children to marry 24-year-old Daniel Lekimencho after meeting him at Bamburi Beach Hotel in Kenya.
• Cultural clashes and Daniel’s growing obsession with material possessions led to the couple’s divorce in 1999, one year after their daughter was born.
• Stevie Liddington, 43, has had no contact with his mother for a decade and says he is ashamed to call her his mother after he was left aged 11.
• Stevie recounts that foster care placements, media-fuelled school bullying and witnessing domestic violence intensified his childhood trauma.
• Thomasgood, now 65, lives alone in Somerset and has kept her past hidden from her local community.