Heartbreak of man's 30-year search for his half-sibling “I’ve always returned to it every few months. It’s always been lurking in the back of my head” Updated Something has been gnawing at John O’Donovan for 30 years. The civil engineer was extremely close to his dad Jeremiah, who died a week before John’s 17 birthday, buried alive in a freak work accident. Seven years later, something strange happened. John was drinking in a Leicester pub when a man asked him: “Do you have anything to do with your dad’s other family, in Bristol?” John had no idea what those words meant, but...