Two Turkish prison inmates, who drilled a 9cm-wide aperture between their cells enabling them to have sexual relations in prison that produced a child, received four-month sentences for damaging public property, press reports said on Sunday.
Convicted murderer Seylan Corduk (40) and Kadriye Fikret Oget (27), serving time for planting a bomb in a market, managed to drive the hole through their concrete communal cell wall, according to court records quoted by the newspapers Vatan et Hurriyet.
The guilty pair each originally received one-year sentences plus a 218-million Turkish lira (R980) fine.
But the court reduced the penalty to four months and 72-million lira “in view of the negligible nature of the damage caused”. — AFP