A mother and her friend who conned a man out of knowing he had a child will appeal against their three-year jail terms.
The duo are to lodge appeals against conviction and sentence, after being locked up at Perth Sheriff Court last week.
The mother was found guilty, along with her gay, male friend, of committing fraud by stealing her former lover’s baby in an elaborate abortion hoax.
She and her hairdresser friend were described as “wicked and cynical” by Sheriff William Wood, after a jury found them both guilty at the end of a week-long trial.
A source close to the case has confirmed plans are under way to formally lodge appeals on behalf of the duo. They confirmed papers would be submitted to the appeal court shortly.
The court had heard claims that the mother, from Perth, may have sold her daughter on to her co-accused for as little as £100 because he wanted a baby of his own.
Both were found guilty of duping her ex-lover into thinking she had an abortion, after she told him she had become pregnant with his child in 2010.
The father of the child, who missed the first three years of her life as he battled to win her back, said previously: “I have finally got justice for my little girl.”
The child now lives with him.
The child’s mother and her homosexual friend had signed the birth certificate and claimed to be the child’s natural parents, but DNA tests later proved the other man was the child’s real father.