Jamaican in UK gets striped twins - one black, one white

FAMILY OF STRIPES: Blood brothers – one twin is white, the other black and so are their personalities like east and west. They are the third twins of parents – Errol, a ‘black’ Jamaican of African descent and Alyson, who is ‘white’ – from Europe..

The two teenage boys sitting on the sofa opposite are different in almost every way. On the left is James: he’s black, he’s gay, he’s gregarious, and he’s academic. He’s taking three A-levels next summer, and wants to go to university. Daniel, sitting beside him, is white. He’s straight, he’s shy, and he didn’t enjoy school at all. He left after taking GCSEs, and hopes that his next move will be an apprenticeship in engineering.

So, given that they are diametrically opposed, there is one truly surprising thing about James and Daniel. They are twins. They were born on 27 March 1993, the sons of Alyson and Errol Kelly, who live in south-east London. And from the start, it was obvious to everyone that they were the complete flipside of identical. “They were chalk and cheese, right from the word go,” says Alyson. “It was hard to believe they were even brothers, let alone twins.”

James-and-Daniel-Kelly black and white twins, children of Jamaican Errol and European wife Allyson

SURPRISE BABY?

The boys’ colour was the most obvious, and extraordinary, difference. “When James was born he was the spitting image of Errol, and I remember seeing his curly hair and thinking

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