Personal Life
Jeffreys met his future wife, Sue, in a youth club in the centre of Luton, Bedfordshire before he became a university student. Jeffreys married Sue (née Miles) on 28 August 1971, and they have two daughters, born in 1979 and 1983. Their two daughters were still very young and growing up when Jeffreys' work life became hectic for the two or three years following his genetic fingerprinting breakthrough.
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