Still a UK rights violation: Incest siblings spared jail

A brother and sister from Scotland who admitted having sex in a railway station lift have avoided jail, although the court ruled the brother should be put on the national register of sex offenders.

Former soldier Richard Finlayson, 21, and his sister Kirsty, 18, were caught in the act twice by security cameras at Motherwell station outside Glasgow, on June 27 last year.

They had pleaded guilty to committing incest and, during sentencing at Hamilton Sheriff Court, the brother received a two-year probation order and the sister a one-year probation order.

Richard Finlayson was also put on the sex offenders register because his sister was only 17 - a minor - at the time.

The court heard Kirsty Finlayson would receive mental health and substance abuse counselling.

She had been living in a hostel at the time and said she went to meet her brother to borrow some money when they ended up having sex.

''I was basically homeless, drunk and needing help. I was waiting with him on the platform for his train home before I went to get mine,'' she told The Sun newspaper.

''It's not an excuse, but I really can't remember everything that happened next.'' She said that she burst into tears as she returned home and felt ''sick and disgusted with myself''.

Richard Finlayson told the Sun it was a ''moment of madness''.

''Kirsty came on to me but I can't blame only her for all this. We were both consenting adults who made a stupid and wrong decision,'' he said.

Sentencing them, Sheriff Ray Small said both defendants were ''vulnerable'' and spared them jail because they had no previous convictions and were not viewed as any threat to the public.

http://www.watoday.com.au/world/incest-siblings-spared-jail-20111015-1lqcn.html

Still a UK rights violation: Incest siblings spared jail

Still a UK rights violation: Incest siblings spared jail

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