Metro

Amnesiac has DNA tests and family statements to prove identity

An alleged amnesiac who is trying to prove that he is a long-missing New York City telephone-company worker now has a DNA test and sworn statements from family to prove his case in court.

Winston Bright, 65, wants to reverse a 2000 court order that declared him dead so he can take back his $616-a-year pension from his former wife.

Bright, who now goes by the name Kwame Seku, submitted a maternity test to Manhattan Surrogate’s Court that proves with 99 percent certainty that his mother is Mary Bright of Harlem, according to the filing.

When her long-lost child returned home after 18 years, “I instantly recognized him as my son, Winston Bright,” Mary said, according to an affidavit she submitted.

“Although he had aged (grey hair, balding and dentures) he had the same facial structure, stature and voice of my son,” she said.

But Bright’s wife, Leslie, 61, of East 10th Street, says the amnesia tale is fabricated and her ex simply chose to abandon the family. Leslie, who is disabled, wants to keep the pension.