Pictured: Astonishing moment couple are caught having sex on grass in broad daylight

Laura Knowles leaving Manchester Magistrates this week

This is the shocking moment a couple were caught having sex in daylight next to a busy road - just moment before they were interrupted by the police.

Laura Knowles appeared in court this week after officers broke up the 30-minute session on a grassy verge near Asda in Hulme, Manchester.  A shocked passerby dialled police and took a photograph of 33-year-old Knowles, who had a man on top of her.

The picture taken by the passerby

The image was later handed to officers and used to prosecute her for outraging public decency.

Knowles, of Darwell Avenue in Eccles, admitted the offence and was handed a curfew, banning her from leaving the home between 7pm and 7am for the next two months. She was also ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs and a £180 court charge.

Her co-accused, Kaspars Rimsa, 30, of Denmark Road, south of Manchester city centre, was also charged with outraging public decency.