Chris Yates, 37, from Glasgow , was jailed for three years in June for his part in the twisted plot. But he was released after serving less than two years in jail and wasted no time in signing up to the dating site.
Appearing in a police vest on Grindr, he said he was after 'M8s d8s bf hugs She had told Steven North, with whom she had a brief relationship in , that she would be aborting their unborn daughter. But it later emerged she had kept the child so she could give it to Yates, who pretended to have received the child via a surrogate. Yates was registered as the girl's father and he looked after her from more than three years before the scam was exposed. She was also jailed for three years.
In June Yates left and Vikki Gilmore were both jailed for three years for their part in the twisted plot. A local resident told the Daily Record : 'I saw the guy's profile on Grindr and I recognised him right away because he is notorious in Perth. The extraordinary hoax began when Gilmore told Mr North she was pregnant with his child. When she told him she was having an abortion, Mr North tried to persuade her to change her mind.
But Gilmore insisted she was having the termination. Even when Mr North noticed she was wearing baggy clothes when he saw her at the local pub, and asked her if she was pregnant, Gilmore denied it. Gilmore then disappeared for five months. At the same time, Mr North saw a Facebook post by Yates, which revealed he was going to be a father from a surrogate mother in Dundee.
Yates and Gilmore then went to extreme lengths to back up their story. The court heard how the pair set up a fake Facebook profile for the fictional surrogate mother, whom they named Clare Green. Vikki Gilmore pictured left pretended she had aborted Steven North's right unborn child so she could 'sell' the little girl to her gay best friend. But Mr North grew suspicious when the 'surrogate' baby was born in February , five months after Yates's announcement.
