Career
Hydes was initially called Gary Gatwick after a plush toy bear sold in an airport giftshop that had been given to him by airport staff soon after his discovery. His case was widely publicised in the United Kingdom and elsewhere at the time. The baby was subsequently adopted and given the name Steven Hydes.
Despite extensive searching by Hydes and others for more than a quarter century little or no information has turned up about Hydes" origins.
Hydes has recently featured on several television programmes and was the subject of a documentary produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.