Sperm donor who claims he fathered more than 180 children loses custody battle

UK judge rejects Robert Albon's application for parental right of three-year-old girl he had with woman in Durham

An unregistered sperm donor who says he has fathered more than 180 children has failed to gain custody of a three-year-old child he had with a Durham woman, who said she was left broken" and suicidal" by their encounter.

Robert Albon, who goes by the pseudonym Joe Donor" and has appeared on This Morning and in a Channel 4 documentary, applied to have the girl live with him after a court deemed her mother was unable to look after her.