She was four months old when her mother, Andrea Sinclair, of Clan Sinclair, a 32 years old drug addict and street prostitute, was murdered by a client, Keith Pollard, on 5 April 1988. Chanelle Jade Sinclair was adopted and raised in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, by Christine and Harry Hayes. At age 15, she sought information about her birth family from social workers, and was reunited with her maternal grandmother and her half sisters in Sheffield.