BUSTED: Mum Hayley Affleck was caught having sex with married Alan Gartside

Cops found Hayley Affleck and Alan Gartside getting passionate in the front of a Peugeot in the early hours.

A court heard that, when the officers approached the pair, the 42-year-old mum was seen pulling up her underwear.

Her lover Alan Gartside ran around the car doing up his trousers at St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear.

Affleck, a buyer for Newcastle NHS Foundation Trust, immediately claimed "it's not what it looks like".

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She pretended she was looking for gloves in the passenger footwell.

Gartside, a married dad from North Yorkshire, asked for "some discretion".

The pair were arrested and searched and Affleck's bra was found in her handbag, the court heard.

Gartside admitted the offence and was cautioned at the police station.

Affleck, pleaded not guilty to one charge of outraging public decency but was convicted after trial at South East Northumberland Magistrates' Court.

PC Helen Bell and her colleague PC Jenny Carr told how they had been on mobile patrol at around midnight on January 21 last year when they drove into the car park at St Mary's and spotted the car.

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The pair saw Affleck and Gartside in the front of the vehicle with the passenger door open.

Giving evidence, PC Carr said: "I turned to my colleague and said, 'are they having sex?'.

"I said that out of shock, really, disbelief at what I was witnessing."

PC Bell added: "They were both having sex.

"Mr Gartside and Ms Affleck were having sex and were going in a back-and-forth rhythm.

"This could clearly be seen by the public due to the car's interior light being on."

Magistrates fined Affleck £300 and ordered her to pay £650 costs and a £30 victim surcharge.

Gartside was given a caution at the police station after he admitted outraging public decency soon after his arrest.