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A father to five ‘designer babies’ has defended a couple who allegedly used sperm of their dead son to create a ‘designer grandson’, believing they should have something to remember their son by.

Barrie Drewitt-Barlow appeared on Good Morning Britain opposite psychotherapist Annabel Giles to debate the alleged incident, seeing a couple send frozen sperm to the US and create a grandson using donor eggs and a surrogate.

The boy, now three, is understood to be living in the UK with his grandparents in what’s believed to be the first case of its kind in the UK.

Barrie appeared on Good Morning Britain (Picture: ITV)

Speaking on Good Morning Britain, social worker Barrie said: ‘At the end of the day, this woman was going through grief losing her child and she wanted to make her son live on, this was her way of doing it.


‘Who are we to judge? The technology is there. Why not use it?’

Annabel however equated it to stealing, having not had consent from their son, saying: ‘It’s stealing isn’t it? Without his consent.

Also, what parent hears that their son has died and their first thought, they had to act quickly because they only had 24 hours, their first thought is, “I know, we’ll harvest his sperm and get ourselves a grandson.”

‘It sounds like they’re trying to buy themselves out of the grieving process and you can’t do that.’

Piers and Susanna on Good Morning Britain (Picture: ITV)

The pair came to verbal scuffles over the alleged case, with Barrie retorting: ‘Why shouldn’t they? You’re a councillor and a psychotherapist, the first thing you should be thinking about is helping those grieving parents get through the loss of their son. Not moaning about their decision.’

He added: ‘I say good for them and why shouldn’t they?’ They’ve gone through this awful loss, they should have something at the end of it to remember their son.’

Viewers however weren’t exactly sharing the same view.

The deceased son was killed in a motorcycle accident, with the parents only being identified as a ‘wealthy British couple’.


They apparently sought treatment in the US after UK laws prohibit posthumous extraction without consent.

You can catch Good Morning Britain weekdays on ITV at 6am.

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