A wicked mum who edited a DNA test photo to persuade her new boyfriend he was the father of her baby – rather than her ex has been convicted over the ruse.
Georgina Saville told her trial that she had doctored the photograph, which she had found online, claiming it was “obvious” it was a fake form.
She said she “didn’t go to a lot of effort” in fabricating it, with prosecutors saying she did it to “derail” her ex-boyfriend’s legal bid to see the children he has with her.
The court heard that 28-year-old Kyle Fitton already had a daughter with her before they split up and she gave birth to their newborn daughter.
Following a four-day trial at Southampton Crown Court she was convicted of perverting the course of public justice and wilfully making a false declaration as to a birth.
Jurors took just two hours to deliberate on the evidence in the case before delivering their verdict and finding the 25-year-old guilty of the charges in question.
The Mirror reports Saville had left the father section of the birth certificate blank, before visiting the Registry Office and adding her new boyfriend, Danny Mellows, as the official dad.
This is despite her previously admitting her two girls were “full blood sisters”. She denied the bizarre move was made in an effort to thwart Mr Fitton’s legal bid to see his children, and instead was to get his solicitor to stop emailing her.
When asked by Mr Fitton’s solicitors to take a DNA test, she sent them the fake results, trying to prove the newborn baby was actually the daughter of her new boyfriend, Danny Mellows.
Giving evidence, Saville admitted how she doctored the DNA test result. “I changed the name to [the baby]’s and Danny Mellows as the alleged father,” she said. “It was just online, I just downloaded it. It was just a form online.”
Saville told jurors she was in a sexual relationship with both Mr Fitton and Mr Mellows from March 2021, but believed the latter to be the father of the baby “from the point of conception”.
When the baby was born in January 2022, she was contacted by Mr Fitton’s solicitor asking for a DNA test of the baby as she had claimed it wasn’t his after the relationship had broken down.
She then sent his team the fake test and said: “I didn’t want it to go anywhere other than that email exchange.” She said she wasn’t sure she was even talking to a real solicitor.
She said she had considered whether it was Mr Fitton or one of his friends ‘pranking’ her. She said: “I didn’t know it was an actual solicitor. I didn’t want it to go anywhere, but it did and now I’m here.”
Asked what she wanted the fake DNA test result to achieve, she answered: “[For the solicitor] to stop harassing me, to stop emailing me.
“I thought she would then go to the courts and apply for an official DNA test and do things in the official manner, not through the back door of emailing me. I didn’t think they would use my false one.
“I thought it would just be disregarded, it was obvious it wasn’t a legitimate one. I didn’t go to the ends of the earth to produce it, I didn’t go to a lot of effort.”
On what consequences she thought there would be, she said: “I didn’t think. I knew that a legitimate test would come about but I genuinely believed that Danny was [the baby]’s dad, so I didn’t think.”
The mum also insisted she had not intended for Mr Fitton to see her bogus document and had no idea it would be submitted to a court or have any bearings on his legal bid for access to their children.
Prosecutor Nick Tucker previously told the court that if taken at face value, the test result “might have deterred him from pursuing the proceedings any further”. He argued it was a “spiteful and calculated attempt to derail his case by dishonest means”.
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