A DESPERATE mum is looking for her missing son - 32 years after he was taken into care.

Mother-of-five Jennifer Burton last saw Adrian Richard Lamar Wheatley when he was less than nine months old.

Clutching the last photo she has of Adrian, as a six-year-old, she says not a day goes by without her thinking of him.

The three-times-married Mrs Burton, who now lives in Coxwell Drive, Malvern Link, was forced to give up her three children from her first marriage - David, Susan and Lisa - when she wed Adrian's father.

She knows where Adrian's sister Sheila is now living - although the pair have not yet been reconciled. And she has received word from Lisa that she wants to renew contact.

"The marriage lasted less than two years," said the 59-year-old.

"I had to give up my three children from my first marriage when I married him. He didn't want to look after anyone else's children.

"It was absolutely awful. I regret it bitterly."

When the pair split, Mrs Burton tried to kill herself. She was at that time living in Westcroft Street, in Droitwich.

"Social services said I wasn't a fit mother, and they came and took Adrian and Sheila away," she said.

"They were only fostered - I wouldn't let them be adopted in case there was a chance I could get them back, but sadly, that was never the case.

"Adrian's foster parents sent me a photo of him when he was about six. I think he was in Redditch, but that's the last I heard of him.

"I think about him every day. I've never stopped loving him.

"I want to know how he is."

Mrs Burton said she was spurred on to find blue-eyed Adrian after a long-lost brother contacted her in 1995 with the shock news she had 18 siblings.

"Even if he doesn't want to see me yet, I would say please just say hello.

"To see Adrian walk through my front door would make my life complete."

Do you know where Adrian Wheatley is? Contact Tanya Gledhill on 01905 748200 ext 278.