Overview
- Andrew Butler and his adult daughter, Nicola Yates, admitted to having sex with a relative and were sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court in 2012.
- Butler received a 10‑month prison term and Yates was given a 26‑week suspended sentence for offences dating between 2008 and 2010.
- A seven‑year‑old stepson first discovered them in bed in 2007, which prompted the family to alert police.
- Yates used the alias “Andrew Bicknell” to mask the relationship, and family members later uncovered explicit images that led to the couple’s 2010 arrest in Bordesley Green.
- Judge James Burbidge called the relationship illicit despite signs of affection, while defence lawyers argued there was no coercion and noted Yates’s vulnerability; Butler had a prior suspended sentence for incest in 2007.