Fraudster mum who faked DNA test to fool ex their baby wasn't his is found guilty

A mum who confessed to editing a photo of a DNA test to say her new boyfriend had fathered her newborn baby rather than the biological dad has been found guilty.

Georgina Saville, 25, admitted to jurors that she had doctored the photo which she found online, but said it was "obvious" it wasn't a real form as she "didn't go to a lot of effort" to make it. Prosecutors had alleged that her motive was to "derail" the legal bid of ex-boyfriend, Kyle Fitton, 28, who she already had a daughter with before the arrival of the baby girl, to see his children.

Today after a four-day trial at Southampton Crown Court, Hants, she was convicted of perverting the course of public justice and a rare charge of wilfully making a false declaration as to a birth. Jurors took just two hours to deliberate before delivering the verdict.

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". The 25-year-old 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 at Southampton Crown Court, 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."

Seville 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 told the court she wasn't sure she was even talking to a real solicitor and had considered whether it was Mr Fitton or one of his friends 'pranking' her. "I didn't know it was an actual solicitor," she said. "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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