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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent

Prolific unregulated sperm donor loses UK legal fight to be named as child’s father

Robert Albon wearing scrubs
The child’s court-appointed advocate described Albon, aka Joe Donor, as a ‘highly dangerous man’. Photograph: Facebook

A prolific unregulated sperm donor described in the high court as a “highly dangerous man” has lost a legal fight to be named as the father of a child conceived using his sperm.

Robert Albon, who calls himself Joe Donor, was not entitled to be declared the father of a four-year-old child because he was running an illegal sperm donation business, Britain’s most senior family court judge ruled.

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