£108m lottery winner is my boy’s dad...and a DNA test will prove it, says cleaner
A £108MILLION lottery winner at the centre of a paternity row has been challenged to take a DNA test by the mother of his alleged son.
Dawn Scully, 39, says she fell pregnant while dating Neil Trotter 15 years before he landed the whopping EuroMillions jackpot in 2014.
Now she wants him to pay her son Liam, 18, an estimated £100,000 to make up for 16 years without child support and maintenance.
She also sent him and his family Facebook messages suggesting a £5million settlement.
But Mr Trotter, 45, says he does not remember Ms Scully and claims she is among hundreds chasing a share of his fortune.
He said: “I’ve had loads of people contact me on Facebook.
“I’ve probably got about four million kids in this country. Everyone wants a bit of money.”
Floodgates
Cleaner Ms Scully, of Orpington, Kent, said: “Last year I had bailiffs knocking on the door trying to evict me and Liam over unpaid rent. On the flip side, Neil is enjoying his millions without a care in the world.
“Liam is the spitting image of his dad, everyone says that. If Neil denies being his father I would say prove it, take a DNA test.”
Liam said: “I’m not after his millions, although if he decided to give me some I wouldn’t be complaining. I just want him to accept responsibility for me as his son.
“Mum would have been a more deserving winner – she works so hard. Despite that I would still like to meet him one day.”
Ms Scully said she met Mr Trotter in 1998 while working at Gwen’s Cafe in Morden, Surrey, near a garage where he was a bodyshop mechanic.
Asked whether he remembered the cafe, Mr Trotter said: “Not really. George’s cafe I used to go to a lot.”
Ms Scully claims Mr Trotter once took her to visit the sprawling home of his millionaire father Jim, where she was overawed by the “gleaming white carpets”.
But speaking outside his £5million mansion, Mr Trotter said: “She’s never been to my dad’s house – we’ve got green carpets.
“I never remember a girl called Dawn Scully. I might have met her, I might have met loads of people. I haven’t got a clue, it’s 19 years ago.
“I never went out with her for a year, I can tell you that.”
He said of Ms Scully’s DNA test challenge: “No, I wouldn’t. If I open that then I open the floodgates for loads of people – I’d be doing DNA tests for the rest of my life.”
Ms Scully said she fell pregnant in May 1999, weeks before the couple split up. She said: “I knew the baby was Neil’s because I hadn’t been seeing anyone else.” She claimed she phoned Mr Trotter to tell him and he replied: “I told you I didn’t want any more kids, good luck and all the best.” She left the “father” section of Liam’s birth certificate blank. Ms Scully’s mother Carol, 64, said she remembered Mr Trotter, adding: “Neil wasn’t interested in Liam, even after she sent him photos of him as a baby. Dawn brought him up on her own and struggled. It was tough.” Ms Scully said her claim for maintenance failed because the Child Support Agency could not find Mr Trotter at the address she gave. But in 2014 she saw pictures of him celebrating his lottery win with partner Nicky Ottaway. Mr Trotter joked then: “Being Trotters we were always going to be millionaires one day.” Maxine Murray, an ex-girlfriend of Mr Trotter, has claimed he left her while she was expecting their son, who later fell victim to cot death.