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Running your own sperm bank in the basement is illegal, it turns out

Darren Atwater | Tuesday 12 October, 2010 14:10

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Two men are in Southwark court today after being prosecuted under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. Nigel Woodforth and Ricky Gage ran an illegal sperm bank from Woodforth’s basement, servicing nearly 800 women.

Melissa Bhalla-Pentley told the Indy that she “paid the men an £80 joining fee and a further £300, the cost of using the service for each menstrual cycle. She then had to pay a courier company £150 for each delivery of sperm, £50 of which would be given to the sperm donor. A box, wrapped in grey polythene and containing a pot of sperm and a 10ml syringe, was delivered to her home late one night.”

The service claimed a 37% success rate.

Two face jail over illegal sperm company [Independent]

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