The Kenyan victory by proving that the soldiers in the United Kingdom are their fathers

Seven people from Kenya won a case in the London Family Court to prove that they were expressed by British men working at an army base in their country.

DNA databases are used commercially to identify unknown parents. Six served in the British Army Training Unit in Kenya (Patock) and one of them worked as a contractor.

This is the first time that paternity has been proven in this way in the UK court.

The decision opens the door for offspring to apply for British citizenship.

The British lawyer James Nito, who participated – along with senior genetics, Dennis Segerakoub – was represented in a project to collect DNA samples and testimonies of people in the Nanioca region in Kenya.

They faced many people there who believed that their parents served in the nearby Patok, the largest base for the British army in Africa.

Then the DNA databases available to the public were used to try to locate any family members in the United Kingdom.

One of the demands, Peter and Wambogo, told the BBC that he grew up with the knowledge that his father was a British soldier, but he said they had never met. The 33 -year -old chef said that he was intimidated throughout his childhood for being mixed.

Peter said that his mother told him that his father was “a good man.” He added: “You told me that he said he would return one day, but he never came.”

Since then he was collected with his father, who claimed that he had no idea that he had a son. After their first meeting, Peter BBC told: “So all the pain I was carrying for thirty years, all the discrimination that I get from people, the pain appeared as joy.”

Another unknown claim for legal reasons said that she met her father once at the age of four and then again. She said that I grew up without him, and she “felt very abandoned.”

In response to the verdict, James Nito said: “For many families, today hearing represents the end of an incredibly difficult journey, as I felt impossible for a long time. Children and young people who only have questions previously, they have answers now.”

He said that there are a lot of people near Patok in a similar position, and the next step was to address the most difficult cases – those who did not have little or non -information about their parents or family members.

Andrew McCloid – a lawyer and activist who participated in the DNA project – said he hoped that today’s case will encourage the Ministry of Defense to take more responsibility for parental demands against Patoc soldiers.

The BBC told the BBC that “while the requests for paternity against service employees in the United Kingdom are a special issue in life, the government is cooperating with the local child support authorities where there are claims related to parenthood.”

The BBC follows this story during the past year as part of the podcast world coming from five parts.