Woman wants sex in jail

PRETORIA (AFP): A mother-of-three accused of leading a notorious crime syndicate has asked a South African supreme court for permission to have sex with her husband in jail so that she can bear another child, a newspaper reported.

"I humbly submit that marriage is consummated by conjugal rights and submit that a failure to give and receive same, has a grave effect to a marriage," 40-year-old Julia Mashele said in a court statement.

Julia Mashele has filed an unprecented application to the Pretoria Supreme Court for conjugal rights with her husband, Murereni, the weekly City Press reported.

Mashele and five others have been accused of about 80 crimes, including drug dealing, car theft and hijacking and fraud, and she has been awaiting trial since May 1993, the newspaper said.