Of course, it is every young man's worst nightmare — a one-night stand with a girl he barely knows, followed weeks later by a text message saying: 'I am pregnant.'
So it was for landscape gardener Jamie Aitken, who was 'pretty horrified' to learn he was going to be a father after spending just one drunken night with a woman he had met on a dating app.
As he says, he wouldn't be the first young man to make such a life-changing mistake. He wouldn't be the first to run for the hills either, but he insists he did not.
Instead, he wanted 'to do the right thing' by Jaclyn McGowan, even if it meant months of sleepless nights trying to work out what the 'right thing' was. 'I wasn't ready to be a dad, and I wouldn't have chosen those circumstances,' says Jamie, now 30 . . . Jamie, now 30, had fallen victim to an extraordinary and cruel deception, one which drew in his whole family and had chilling echoes of last year's BBC hit drama The Secrets She Keeps (starring Downton actress Laura Carmichael) and ended with a police investigation and criminal charges . . . "
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