EXCLUSIVE: Long Lost Family mum who had son 'snatched from her arms' reunited with him 52 years on

A mum forced to give up her son ten days after giving birth at the age of 14 has been reunited with him 52 years later.

Lynne Oakes’s childhood was shattered when she fell pregnant to an older man.

And was sent away to a mother and baby home because “my parents just couldn’t handle it”

After having her son in 1968 she spent a precious few days with him before he was “snatched from her arms” for adoption.

Lynne, 68, who was the youngest mum in the home, recalled the terrible grief of losing her child after taking to motherhood immediately.

“I was always knitting. I made lots of baby clothes to keep [him] warm and make him look nice,” she said.

“I loved every minute of it, bathing him, I’d sing to him, and I’d talk to him. For ten days you get to love something – then the very last day I remember crying.

“My tears were dropping on his face as I was feeding him and I was saying I was sorry and I loved him and I’ll always love him, and one day I would find him.

“And then they put him in the cot, just wheeled him away and that was it. I couldn’t believe something so beautiful was snatched from my arms.”

Lynne, a retired bank clerk later married but had no more children.

She tried in the past to find her son, but only had success thanks to ITV’s Long Lost Family.

The show last year found her son – now called Michael Cocks – living in Thetford, Norfolk, and they had an emotional reunion on camera which will be shown next week.

Lynne said the meet was “magic” adding: “He keeps holding my hand and wants to call me Mum.”

Builder Michael, who also introduced Lynne to his daughter Ellie and her baby, is just as pleased. He said: “She’s such a lovely woman. She is going to be a big part of our family.”

Lynne added: “This is a second chance for me. I’m a mum, a grand-mum and a great grand-mum. Am I gonna wake up and this has been one big dream? No. It’s true.”