Irish Sunday Mirror

Ferne’s acid attack ex wants to father a child from prison

Thug begs model to have his baby by IVF

- BY HALINA WATTS Showbiz Editor

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Arthur Collins – serving 20 years for a nightclub acid attack – has begged the 25-year-old woman to visit him in prison.

And the thug, already dad to EX-TOWIE star Ferne’s daughter, wants to use IVF to start their family while he’s inside.

Yesterday the model revealed: “It’s insane. He’s been texting me loads and calling. He’s asked me to wait for him and has put me on his visiting list. He asked if I wanted to settle down with him and said we can use IVF to get started with children. But he’s proper jealous and asked if I am speaking to anyone and going out.

“He’d rather I stayed in. At first it was a bit of fun but now I am worried he is taking things too seriously.”

Collins, 26, failed in an appeal against his sentence in October. He went on the run after injuring 22 people when he hurled acid across a packed East London dance floor in April 2017.

He wants me to wait for him. At first it was fun. Now I am worried MODEL ON MOBILE TRYSTS WITH JAIL ACID ATTACKER

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Devastated reality star Ferne dumped him but revealed she was carrying his baby. Their daughter Sunday was born that November – around the time Collins, of Broxbourne, Herts, first contacted the model. He was jailed the following month after being convicted of five counts of GBH with intent and nine counts of ABH. Of the 22 people injured in the attack in Dalston, 16 suffered serious burns. In January 2018, Collins was given another eight months for using a smuggled mobile to call Ferne from his cell. Last December a violent criminal won the right to have €3,000 NHS fertility treatment in jail. If successful, he will become a dad while behind bars. He used Article Eight of the Human Rights Act guaranteei­ng him the right to a family life. Only a handful of jailbird applicatio­ns for IVF treatment have been approved. Every year, thousands of are rejected for IVF, which costs around €4,000 a time. The Prison Service said: “Mobile phones have no place in our prisons and anyone found using one faces extra time behind bars.” halina.watts@reachplc.com Ferne with Sunday

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