A female prisoner in Vietnam has paid a fellow inmate £1,600 for his semen - which she used to impregnate herself and avoid execution.
Death row convict Nguyen Thi Hue, 42, paid the male inmate at the mixed prison to twice leave his sperm in plastic bags at a mutually agreed hiding place in the jail.
She collected the bags and used a syringe to impregnate herself, thereby forcing authorities to commute her death sentence to one of life imprisonment.
The 27-year-old male inmate, Nguyen Tuan Hung, allegedly gave her the bags in the Quang Ninh province jail sometime in August 2015.
Four guards at the northern Vietnam prison have now been suspended for negligence, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported.
