THE fathers’ rights protester who scaled the walls of Buckingham Palace is no longer living with his seven-month-old daughter because of his “obsession” with campaigning to gain access to his other children, it was revealed yesterday.
Gemma Polson, the mother of Jason Hatch’s fourth child, Amelia, has left him because of his involvement with Fathers 4 Justice. Miss Polson, 27, said yesterday that she had moved out of his house in Cheltenham because the campaign had put too much strain on their relationship.
Miss Polson said: “It was all going too far. Fathers 4 Justice has taken over his life. He had told me he was going to give it all up but then he goes and does this at Buckingham Palace.
“He didn’t even tell me he was going to do it. He was seeing hardly anything of our daughter, which was a bit rich when the whole point of his campaign was to allow dads to see more of their children.”
She said Mr Hatch, 32, who has one child by his first marriage and two by his second, will not have to fight to see their daughter: “I would rather he sees more of Amelia than he does now.
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“I’m behind him 100 per cent. I haven’t a bad word to say about him. We had a child together but we’re still friends.”
This year Miss Polson set up Purple Hearts, a female arm of Fathers 4 Justice, but still found her partner’s campaigning a strain.
She said: “The problem is that there’s no getting away from it. That’s why I started the group.”
Released without charge yesterday after a night in police custody, Mr Hatch refused to comment on a claim by his former partner, Victoria Jones, that their son and daughter, aged five and four, were too upset to go to school because of the pressure placed on them by their father’s protest.
Nor would he answer questions about claims that he had boasted of sleeping with 100 women in five years and had fathered many children.
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The plan to breach palace security was made in a bar at a Shropshire hotel. The Fathers 4 Justice meeting at the Stretton Hall Hotel in Church Stretton was said to have descended into a drunken boasting session.
Mr Hatch was convicted of harassing Miss Jones after they split up and received a one-year conditional discharge.
Charges of threats to kill Miss Jones and her mother Susan Beacham were ordered to lie on file. During the trial at Gloucester, the court heard that Mr Hatch legally owned a number of weapons.
Miss Jones moved the children out of his home and, according to Mr Hatch, refused him access to them.
Eighteen months later he was granted a supervised visit every three months, later increased to once every three weeks.
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He had claimed his life was “on hold” until he was allowed “proper” access.