A single mother claims a Euromillions winner is the father of her teenage son and has demanded he takes a paternity test.
Dawn Scully, 39, claims she became pregnant with her son Liam, now 18, just weeks before she split from Neil Trotter, 45, and wants him to pay child maintenance.
Neil hit headlines after winning almost £108 million on the EuroMillions lottery in March 2014.
But despite Dawns insistence Liam is the spitting image of Neil, he says he does not even remember Dawn, who claims the pair dated for a year.
She says they partied, stayed at Neils flat and on one occasion visited his fathers house.
She added she could remember gleaming white carpets in the expensive property, but Neil told the Mirror: Shes never been to my dads house. Weve got green carpets in my dads house.
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I never remember a girl called Dawn Scully. I might have met her, I might have met loads of people, I havent got a clue. Its 19 years ago.
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I never went out with her for a year, I can tell you that.
Now, Dawn wants the millionaire to give her son £100,000 in order to make up for the years of child maintenance payments he allegedly missed.
She also sent him messages over Facebook saying she will leave him alone forever if he gives her £5 million.
One of the messages said: Hello again Neil, I went to see a solicitor last week to find out where I stand financially from you, it seems you would have to pay out quite a bit a week with your status! (Would definitely be a lot to me anyway!) with your newly found financial status…Multimillionaire!!!
My son has a multimillionaire father…I am hoping you would want to pay me off to keep quiet and leave you alone FOREVER rather than deal with DNA and solicitors just to end up paying maintenance…
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£5m would be amazing more than enough to help see my family ok.
Im sick of struggling through week by week knowing you could change our lifes [sic] in an instant.
What do you have to say.
Liam was born on February 25 2000, and Dawn left the father section of his birth certificate blank.
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The single mother, then aged 21, claims she sent Neil pictures of Liam when he was six-weeks-old, and Neil called her asking why she had sent them.
But although Dawns mother backed up her claims, Neil denies ever receiving any pictures of Liam.
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Shortly after Neils massive lottery win, one of his exes Maxine Murray claimed he walked out on her while she was pregnant with their son Jamie, who later died of cot death.
And despite not having any contact with Neil since their alleged relationship ended, Dawn claims she paid a solicitor £500 to send a letter to him, but they gave up after not receiving a reply.
Fearing an expensive court battle, Dawn said she gave up because she feared bankruptcy.
She added: It could help Liam buy his first house, which Ill never be in a position to do.
Neil says he never received any legal contact, and that he and his girlfriend refused to respond when she contacted them through social media.
Asked if he would do a DNA test he said: No, I bloody wouldnt. If I open that, I open the floodgates for loads of people, Id be doing DNA for the rest of my life.
Winning this has been the worst thing I ever did. No one writes anything good about the lottery and thats why no one in this country, big winners, will go public again.
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