“Who am I?” asks memory-loss Jezebel

A BRITISH woman found

The woman, who has given herself the name Jezebel Blythe, was flown to Britain earlier this week after British embassy officials in Greece agreed to give her a temporary passport.

She says that her memory only stretches back 18 months, when she woke up and found her teeth badly damaged and discovered a wound to her head.

Jezebel, who thinks she is in her early fifties, spent the next year sleeping rough in the sea port near Athens, trying to locate the British Embassy and receiving help from local Greeks.

She was eventually found by a Greek social worker in February this year, who subsequently contacted the British authorities and arranged for her to be cared for in a psychiatric hospital. Speaking in a southern English accent, Jezebel yesterday calmly told of her experience and the relief she now feels at finally being back in Britain.

“I found that my teeth were smashed out and I had a big cut on my head,” she said. “I started looking for the British Embassy but could not find it so I set down in Piraeus (the port of Athens).

“I must have stayed there for about a year feeling absolutely hopeless. I am hoping that my family will see the photograph that is taken and will come forward.”

Of her name, she said: “I wanted something that was fairly improbable, instead of something like Susan or Mary.

“I felt a lot worse in Greece than I do here, because I felt completely stuck and the only English person I came across was myself.”

Jezebel is currently in the care of a charity organisation in a Kent town which she does not want to be identified.