Local council 'will not pay for 13-year-old's paternity test'

A paternity test for baby-faced East Sussex "father" Alfie Patten will not be paid for by his local authority, sources have said.

A paternity test for baby-faced English "father" Alfie Patten will not be paid for by his local authority, sources have said.

Chantelle Steadman, 15, has said 13-year-old Alfie is the father of her baby daughter Maisie, born a week ago in Eastbourne.