Dad left ‘broken’ after having to wait 15 months to meet baby girl after ex-girlfriend botched DNA test
A dad has spoken out about his heartbreak of having to wait months to meet his baby girl after a DNA test was falsified by his ex.
Kyle Fitton said a ‘spiteful’ Georgina Saville threatened he wouldn’t ‘ever’ get to see his kids again.
She had tried to de-rail the father’s legal bid to get access by claiming the baby’s biological dad was her new boyfriend, Danny Mellows. But after last week’s trial at Southampton Crown Court, she’s been warned she could now face jail after being convicted of perverting the course of public justice and a rare charge of wilfully making a false declaration as to a birth.
The pair already had a daughter together but she claimed their newborn wasn’t his in March 2022. Saville then presented a fake DNA test and lied on a birth certificate.
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"It's taken so long to get to this stage and to actually get to the truth," the 28-year-old said. "It's just a massive sense of relief. I have been quite upset, stressed all the time."
Fitton's children are now under legal guardianship of his mother, and he gets to see them every day. He explained that despite their toxic relationship, he ‘kept going back to' Saville because of their eldest daughter.
"I wanted to be a family, I wanted to try my hardest and have that family, as one unit,” he added. Fitton said it was ‘frustrating’ when she claimed Mellows was the father as he ‘knew from day one’.
"I knew from that point, I had to fight this, I had to fight for the truth,” he said. "I knew she was mine and I had to prove this just to get the truth.”
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The court heard how Saville made Fitton and his mum follow strict ‘rules’ and at one point he worried she might carry out her threat of taking them away.
"It absolutely scared me. I thought I was going to have my girls taken from me and nothing could be done. I thought it was going to be the end of the world - they are my world.”
The dad said while his two daughter’s bond now is blossoming, the 15-month wait to meet his baby was heart-aching.
"[The newborn] had never met me, it took some time to bond that relationship.
"But now it's amazing. We were finally united before her second birthday."
On why it had taken so long, he said: "[Saville] said I was never allowed to meet [the baby], but mum was.
"Even if I said to mum [to say to Saville I wanted to] it would be a no. That's when I had enough of it, I said I need to do something and that's when I started court proceedings.
"And then it took a long, long time."
Now, every day is ‘absolutely amazing’ as Fitton added: “It's the best part of my day, knowing I finish work I get to go home and see my daughters.
"Walking into mum's and they both shout 'daddy'. It's just a sense of relief they are there, they are happy and they are safe."
Now the process is finally over, he says other mums or dads in similar situations ‘need to push for the truth’.
"This court case, the family court case has broken me, financially, emotionally and physically,” he said. "I'm glad I kept pushing and pushing until the truth came out. It has taken me two years to get access to the girls. It has killed me."
Jess Battison