Reunited father-daughter in UK to face jail for having sex 'as boyfriend, girlfriend'

Jul 19, 2011 |

London

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crime

A long-lost father and daughter in the UK, who reunited through a family-tracing website, will be sentenced to jail after starting an illicit sexual affair 'as boyfriend and girlfriend'.

Office worker Nicola Yates, 26, tracked down her real father Andrew Butler, 46, through website Genes Reunited.

The pair discovered that they had been living just streets apart in Birmingham for years and got together after two decades apart.

But it was claimed that when they met again for the first time, Yates, who was 20 at the time, enjoyed a 'highly charged, emotional reunion' with her father, who at the time was in a relationship with another woman nearer his age.

Suspicions were aroused about the pair when she began to spend more time with Butler and developed more intense feelings for her natural father.

Relatives were later horrified to discover the young woman and Butler had become illicit lovers.

The daughter and father were arrested in September last year after her family alerted the police.

Incredibly, the couple had admitted the same charge four years ago and were both punished for the offence - but re-ignited their affair for a second time afterwards.

The pair, both on bail, will now be sentenced for a second time for the same charge next month. The penalty for the sex offence can be a two-year jail sentence.

"It's all true. My head's all over the place at the moment,” the Daily Mail quoted Yates as confirming the affair.

"I'm just waiting for the court case and then I want to move on with my life," Yates added.

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