A heartbroken mum whose partner was killed in a hit and run on the way home from a wedding when she was six months pregnant faces a bill of £9,000 to register him as their daughter’s father. Kitchen designer Sophie Jay was happily expecting their first child when she was told that her boyfriend Jack Brandon had died.
The 22-year-old plasterer had gone out for the evening to a friend’s wedding and called her on his way home to tell her he loved her and how excited he was for their future with their baby. Tragically, he never made it home, and in an instant, Sophie went from looking forward to enjoying family life together to being effectively widowed, laying a rose on Jack’s coffin while six months gone.
The Mirror reports that because after daughter Lilah was born last month, Sophie discovered that – because they weren’t married – she would have to go to court and pay an astronomical bill to declare Jack her little girl’s dad. The 20-year-old says: “It’s a basic right for him to be on the birth certificate. Lilah’s lost her dad and now he might not even be on her birth certificate. He lost his life and he doesn’t even get that.”
