A Margate woman who was brought up in care after her mother was murdered believes she has one last chance to find her long-lost sister.

Olive Rose Butcher, 78, of Churchfields, was seven months old when her mother Phyllis May Spiers was the victim of Folkestone’s “Green Scarf Murder” in May 1938.

Now she is researching her roots to find her sister Everall, who was born in 1933.

Olive said: “My only goal in life is to find my sister even if she doesn’t want to know me. If I saw her I couldn’t tell you how I would feel, it would be very emotional – a mixture of emotions.

“I have had three children, now I have grandchildren, and they had no one but me all their lives since my husband died.

"I really would like to know who I am, just to give them an idea of where they came from.”

She believes Everall married a man named Victor S Bowden after a woman responded to her appeal in a newspaper 30 years ago claiming to be Phyllis May Spiers’ sister.

Olive was moved into children’s homes in Orpington during the war, Dartford, Sittingbourne and landed up in Cheriton.

She did not find out that her mother had been murdered until a newspaper editor took her to the British newspaper archive in Colindale.

She said: “My mother was 22, a lady of the street and my sister and I had different fathers. I went to school with William Whiting’s daughter and had no idea.”

“I would have been 16 when I heard and it shocked me. I wrote to a local paper 30 years ago because my husband tried to get me to do something.

“But it wasn’t until last week when my daughter found pages of information about “The Green Scarf Murder” online that I just can’t get it off my mind now.”