Dad Gets Another Man To Take DNA Test To Avoid Paying Child Support

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Dad Gets Another Man To Take DNA Test To Avoid Paying Child Support

 

A dad dodged a DNA test in an attempt to avoid making child maintenance payments – by sending another man.

 

John Bullett, 44, of Featherstone, West Yorkshire, struck up a relationship with Newcastle mother-of-one Danielle Roxburgh three years ago.

But the romance turned sour when he found out the 29-year-old was pregnant.

And when the Child Support Agency (CSA) requested a DNA test last year to establish if he was the father, Bullett sent a man known only as ‘Andrew’ in his place.

He was caught when officials from the CSA made a routine visit to Danielle’s home to show her a picture of the man who took the test.

Speaking to Sky Tyne & Wear, Danielle said: “It looked nothing at all like John, nothing.

“How could anybody do that?

“He’s lied to me for the last three years and he has a little boy that nobody even knows about.”

Bullett appeared at Leeds Crown Court on June 5 after pleading guilty to fraud at an earlier hearing.

Sentencing him to a six-month curfew, Recorder Simon Hirst said: "You behaved in a despicable and cowardly fashion.

"This was plainly a planned deliberate matter in which Mr Bullett recruited another man to pull the wool over the doctor’s eyes, the department and of course to avoid paying some money to this lady to help with the upbringing of this child."