News In Focus
13 November 2007
Prisoner wants conjugal rights
A convicted murderer in a Scottish prison is to launch a human rights bid to be allowed conjugal rights during his sentence, according to an article in today's Daily Record.
Jamie Bain, 23, wants to be able to have sex with his fiancee Dionne Hendry, with whom he has two children, when she visits him at Glenochil Prison. Bain was sentenced to life imprisonment in January, with a minimum of 22 years, after killing Alex McKinnon with a sawn-off shotgun in an Edinburgh pub. He was also found guilty of the attempted murder of Ms Hendry's brother James.
Prisons in Ontario, Denmark and Sweden allow such private family visits, but it is thought that there would be little public support for such a move in Britain.