DNA test contradicts couple's claims about child's paternity, deportation case told

The judge said the applicants have repeatedly lied from the start and those lies fundamentally compromised their credibility on all matters

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. File photo: iStock

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.