(633)  SECOND CONVICTION FOR KNOWINGLY INFECTING PARTNER WITH HIV

Giovanni Mola, a 38-year old man from Edinburgh, became the second person in Scotland to be convicted of the crime of knowingly infecting a sexual partner with HIV and Hepatitis C when found guilty of the offence by a majority of the jury in the High Court of Justiciary at Glasgow on 7 February 2007.  The previous conviction, that of Stephen Kelly, took place in 2001 (see No 99).  Mola will be sentenced on 7 March.