A woman filmed performing sex acts in Concert Square has been spared jail.
Video footage of Kelly Cousins engaging in various sex acts with a man at the popular Liverpool city centre nightspot went viral at the start of August.
The incident drew widespread condemnation including from Joanne Anderson, the Mayor of Liverpool, who branded it as ‘disturbing, damaging and illegal’.
On Monday, Cousins received a ten-week jail term, suspended for 12 months, after pleading guilty to outraging public decency at an earlier hearing.
The Bootle mother of four, 35, must also complete 40 hours of unpaid work, 20 days of a rehabilitation activity, pay £120 costs and £154 victim surcharge.
Andrew Page of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said: “The behaviour that took place in Concert Square that night was genuinely outrageous.
“Concert Square attracts a lot of tourists and the incident could well have damaged the reputation of the city in some people’s eyes.
“Whatever Ms Cousins and the man involved thought they were up to, it was not the place. The man involved in this incident was equally culpable and is being pursued by the police.
“Ms Cousins chose to further share posts of the incident on her own social media – these posts and others led to the complaints that have landed her in court.
“There are standards of public decency that every civilised society needs to maintain and the behaviour of these two people on that night was in direct contravention of those standards and, indeed, the law.”