Annie Price relieved to learn truth of horrific fire

The mixed-race daughter of an Irish Traveller mother has told how she grew up believing her mother set fire to her as a tiny baby because she was born after an out-of-wedlock affair with a black British man.

In a BBC documentary, Annie: Out of the Ashes, 30-year-old Annie Price goes on a search for the truth behind her horrific burns three decades after the fire which engulfed her as she lay sleeping in a caravan in Mitcham, London, in 1986.

After the fire, the badly burned baby defied all expectations by surviving the incident and was taken into care and later adopted by a white, non-Traveller family in England.