​Woman Tries To Track Down Father Of Her Daughter After One Night Stand

A woman is trying to track down an unknown Welshman - 15 years after she fell pregnant with his child.

Terri Reid, 32, has said that she met the father of her 14-year-old daughter, Chanell, in a nightclub in Blackpool back in 2003.

Aged 17 at the time, she had a one night stand with him, and around nine months later she gave birth. She has said that the only possibility is that the man is the father.

However, the only thing that Terri knows about the mysterious man is that he is from Wales - and that at the time he was not far off the 'tall, dark and handsome' description.

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Terri, who still lives in Blackpool and works as a mental health nurse, said: "Chanell is old enough now to understand and she wants to find her dad. I'm doing this for her."

While she doesn't remember much about the encounter, Terri said that she can recall a few details.

"I think he was in the town on holiday with his friend and their families so he couldn't have been much older than I was at the time, maybe a year or two," she said.

"I was out with my friend, her brother and we ended up in a nightclub in the middle of Blackpool.

"It's not there any more and I can't remember its name."

She added: "I don't even know his name now, it's been so long.

"All I know is that he was Welsh for certain and he might have been called Liam.

"He had the accent but as for where in Wales I couldn't place it. It was just a Welsh accent to me.

"We got talking in the club, which I think was called Sanuk, and then went back to my friend's flat which was above a Chinese takeaway.

"The next day we went our separate ways and he went back to his hotel in the town."

While Terri thinks that the one night stand may have been 'unfortunate' and 'a mistake', she's happy to have gained a beautiful daughter from it.

Chanell 'wanted for nothing growing up', but two years ago conversation turned to wanting to find out who her real dad was.

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Terri said: "I explained to her the situation and she understood and now I think she's old enough to grasp it fully.

"I want to do it for her, to help her find him.

"We don't want anything from him, just that Chanell would like to know who her dad is.

"She wants to do this appeal with me so here we are. We are trying to see if he's still out there.

"It would be nice to know he's out there somewhere and maybe wants to know we have a daughter together."

Topics: UK News, News, Relationships, Wales

Jess Hardiman

Jess is a journalist at LADbible who graduated from Manchester University with a degree in Film Studies, English Language and Linguistics - indecisiveness at its finest, right there. She also works for FOODbible and its sister page Seitanists, which are both a safe haven for her to channel a love for homemade pasta, fennel and everything else in between. You can contact Jess at [email protected].

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