Man becomes tearful decades after being ‘snatched’ from mother as a baby

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A 58-year-old man became overcome with emotion while describing how he was snatched from his mother’s arms as a baby, never to see her again.

Tonight, ITV’s Long Lost Family returns, following presenters Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell as they attempt to help people reunite with long-lost relatives.

Two men are separately looking for siblings who they were separated from – and one of these men is Peter Macdonald, a painter and decorator from Lancashire.

In a clip from the first episode of the new series, Peter explains how he was taken away from his mother when he was just a couple of months old, as his father literally wrenched him away from his mum moments before t