A DNA test has established that an Indian man resisting deportation from Ireland on grounds of being the father of a child born to an EU citizen from Romania is not the child’s father, a High Court judge has said. The DNA test results contradict repeated sworn assertions by the man and woman that he is the father of the two-year-old boy, Mr Justice Richard Humphreys said. The child’s Romanian birth certificate, which inaccurately names the man as his father, was procured by fraud and requires correction, he added. When granting the injunction, he noted the Minister for Justice did not accept the man is the child’s father, “implying the whole thing is a scam”. He formally found as a fact the man is not the child’s father and noted the Minister will inform the registrar of births to request the child’s birth certificate be corrected to reflect that.

Source: The Irish Times February 11, 2021 21:51 UTC