Fiancée of Derbyshire footballer Jordan Sinnott campaigning for law change after birth certificate battle
Kelly Bossons found out she was pregnant just weeks after the 25 year old died.
The fiancée of an East Midlands footballer, who found out she was pregnant just weeks after he was killed on a night out, is calling for a change in the law after being told she couldn't put his name on their baby's birth certificate.
Jordan Sinnott died in hospital back in January 2020, after suffering a serious brain injury in an unprovoked attack whilst on a night out in Retford town centre.
The two men responsible for his death are serving time behind bars.
Just days after the 25 year old's funeral, his partner Kelly Bossons found out she was pregnant with their daughter Maisie Jordan Sinnott, who's now two years old.
Kelly tells us:
"Maisie's got his sense of humour, so if she's ever in trouble for doing anything she shouldn't, she'll just sit and listen to me, and then come really close and go..."Boo"!
"Then I just laugh it off because I think that's part of your dad coming out which is quite nice.
"When I try and take myself back to when it was all going on, it was just like having an out of body experience."
Because the couple weren't married, Kelly's had to go through a lengthy and expensive court battle to get Jordan's name on their daughter's birth certificate.
"I just couldn't understand it. He's her dad and she's lost enough.
"Had my circumstances been exactly the same, but me and Jordan had been married, I wouldn't have been subjected to the process.
"You're only ever going to find yourself in this situation at the worse time of your life.
"You've just lost your partner, you've just had a baby so you're extremely vulnerable anyway, you're sleep deprived, you're a new mum and then you've got to go to court.
"It just doesn't make sense to me".
Kelly, who's now 29, is campaigning with the charity Widowed and Young, to fight against the law that says you must be married for your deceased partner to be legally recognised as the baby's father.