A MUM nailed a DNA examiner who helped her child’s father evade maintenance payments.
Lab worker Robert Patel provided a saliva sample, forged a doctor’s signature and used an official stamp.
Ian WhittakerChelsea Millar nailed a DNA examiner who helped her child’s father evade maintenance payments[/caption]
Ian WhittakerLab worker Robert Patel provided a saliva sample, forged a doctor’s signature and used an official stamp to nobble the DNA test[/caption]
He was asked to nobble the test by Sheldon Brown’s aunt.
The HGV driver left Chelsea Millar three days after their son Louie was born in March 2022 and denied being his father.
A court heard he stood to save £94,000 in maintenance.
When the Child Maintenance Service told Chelsea the test supposedly taken by Brown was negative, she persuaded Brown’s mother Katie to provide DNA at a private lab.
It proved Louie was her grandson.
The fake DNA swab matched Patel, 38, who had a conviction in 2017 for stealing £1,600 from a disabled person.
There was no evidence he received payment for the scam.
He and Brown, 26, both admitted conspiracy to defraud at Guildford crown court.
Brown, of Hampton, South West London, was jailed for 50 weeks and Patel, of Feltham, West London, got 33 weeks.
Chelsea, 31, said: “I always knew who the father of my child was, but I was left questioning everything.”
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