DNA proves Brit is dad to £1billion heir

A MARKET trader who landed a top city job before being made homeless has finally won a decade-long battle to prove he fathered the heir to a £1billion fortune.

Steve Marston spent his entire life savings on a legal battle with one of Europe’s wealthiest dynasties to prove the paternity of the boy, now aged 12.

DNA tests were ordered by a judge in Luxembourg, which showed that there was a 99.9999 per cent chance of Mr Marston, from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, being the child’s dad.

Now, the barrow boy turned city trader is seeking up to £9.5m from the mother’s family as reparation for his ‘decade of hell’.

The 49-year-old claims to have had a six-year relationship with the boy’s mother, a half-British woman and heir to a Luxembourg media tycoon’s fortune.

He and the woman got engaged in 2006 before he discovered she’d already married another man the year before. THE planet Uranus was originally called George