An embattled mum has won a High Court fight to try to prove a body is that of her daughter before the authorities bury it.

Felicia Daniel is convinced a corpse found by police in Kent is her daughter Donna who vanished in 1991 aged 19.

Since Donna's disappearance, Mrs Daniel, landlady of the Queens pub in Lumb Lane, Manningham, has spent more than £60,000 trying to discover what really happened to her.

In 1993 a coroner recorded that Donna had died in a women's refuge in Kent but Mrs Daniel believes that body, which was later cremated, was a woman who impersonated her daughter.

However, she now believes she is on the verge of discovering the truth after seeing an artist's impression of a young pregnant girl murdered in Kent in March.

She said: "I soon as I saw the picture I was convinced that it is my Donna. A mother knows her own.

"I know she is dead now. I don't know how I will feel when I come face-to-face with Donna again. All I want is to bring her home and lay her to rest in Bradford."

Mrs Daniel lost touch with Donna 18 months after she moved to London, just weeks after giving birth to twin daughters.

Unable to cope with motherhood, she left her babies, one of whom later died, with her mother and lived in numerous addresses in South-East London. After 18 months Donna stopped calling. In 1997 she discovered that a woman who died in a Gillingham refuge in 1993 had been identified as Donna.

But autopsy reports revealed the body was four inches shorter than Donna, had different coloured eyes and had never been pregnant.

However, the body was rel-eased for cremation and the ashes scattered before checks were carried out and no photographs had been taken during the autopsy. After the body was cremated, North Kent coroner Lionel Skingley was found guilty of thefts from clients at his solicitors' practice and sentenced to six and a half years in prison for fraud.

Police discovered the latest body on March 15 in Kent and released an artist's impression to help identify it.

But they now believe they know the identity of the victim and have refused to let Mrs Daniel see the corpse.

However, Judge Silver at the Queens Bench division of the High Court has now ruled that Mrs Daniel should be given that opportunity.