Former stockbroker awarded €32,500 damages for paternity ‘deceit’

A MAN who sued his former girlfriend over her “deceit” in leading him to wrongly believe he was the father of her son was yesterday awarded more than £22,000 (€32,500) damages against her in the British High Court.

A judge in London ruled that the woman, 46, had made “fraudulent representations” to him over the paternity of the child.

John Blofeld awarded the 63-year-old former stockbroker just over £22,400 — which included £7,500 (€11,000) to compensate him for the distress he suffered when he discovered the boy was not his.