Callous lies of the dad who faked a DNA test to get out of paying child support to two different women
A heartless dad has been jailed after faking a DNA test in a bid to swerve child support payments for his two sons.A court heard that Steve Dixon, 39, cooked up an ‘audacious’ scheme to shirk his responsibilities as a father.Dixon, from Warrington, Cheshire talked his mate into taking the test for him by swabbing his mouth before sending it off to authorities.He then went so far as to accuse his ex-partners’ pursuit of monetary contributions for the two boys as ‘tantamount to harassment’.Dixon also fabricated a sob story that he had previously been ‘traumatised’ to find out that he was not the two boys’ father, and that this DNA test meant he had to ‘relive it all again’.His plan was rumbled following an investigation after the women