Kelly was prosecuted under common law in Scotland but the Home Office said a similar prosecution could be pursued in England and Wales under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act. It will discourage people from testing and it will create a false complacency because people may see the trial and think in future people will tell me. It is really going to help restigmatise HIV in a way that is hugely unhelpful. We have been working towards a situation where people with HIV are able to talk about their status and don't feel afraid or feel they need to conceal it. At the Phace West support group in Glasgow, director Charlie Macmillan said they had already had calls from sufferers following the trial.
People are just very worried and very unclear what the limits are.
The boundaries of this are so unclear. Lawyers for Kelly had told the judge that he had believed Ms Craig had known of his HIV status. She said he had not shown any symptoms for some time but had recently started taking combination therapy drugs. This is a tragedy for both of them and for both of their families.