By Michelle Paine | The Mercury | November 13, 2008

A MAN who believed for nine years that a little girl was his says he is devastated after a blunt text message saying he was not her biological father.

The Hobart man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had sought a DNA test in the hope of maintaining contact with the nine-year-old girl, who lives in the UK with her mother, the Mercury reports.

But last week he received a blunt text message on his mobile phone.

It read: "Got the results. Im sorry. I will sort out the birth cert + there will b no more contact. Sorry."

"I just didn't believe it at first," the man told the paper.

The official papers came soon afterwards.

He came forward after it was revealed this week that mothers are being forced to pay money back to men they wrongly claimed fathered their children.

But this dad said that while he was going to get his money back, "I'd rather have my daughter".

He and the mother of the girl were university students in England when she became pregnant.

"We moved in together and decided to try to make it work," the man said.

"I was there when she was born. She was my responsibility."

Now he feels devastated - and has no chance of seeing her unless he launches a legal battle.

"We're still taking it in. She's still my daughter," said the man, who has since married.

"It never occurred to me I wasn't the biological father."

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