Jonathan Furness KC, sitting as a deputy high court judge, took the rare step of naming him as a parent in the family court as a warning to other women who might be tempted to buy sperm from him.
Albon, an American who lives in the north-east of England, took a same-sex couple to court demanding parental rights, including being named on the birth certificate of the child he had fathered with one of the women.
A sperm donor who subjected mothers to a “nightmare” of controlling behaviour over their child has been named by a judge as warning about the dangers of unregulated sperm donation.
Neither woman opposed one annual email or card each year to the child from Albon under so-called “letterbox contact”, with the items kept for when the child is able to understand them.
Albon had also asked for the non-biological mother to be called “aunty”, despite her having been present at the birth and being called “mother” by the child.
