Innes Miller pleads guilty over Ferris‑wheel sex

Innes Miller, 33, pleaded guilty on 10 September 2026 after admitting he had sex on a Ferris wheel at Download Festival on 13 June 2026 — an episode that went viral and prompted a court case. The incident and its fallout matter to festivalgoers because it highlights how public behaviour at large events can have legal, social and child-protection consequences.

The court appearance took place at Leicester Magistrates’ Court, where the offence was recorded as an act of outraging public decency (see the court record on OpenCourtData). Miller was fined £80 and ordered to pay £85 in costs plus a £32 victim surcharge, as reported by national press (NME).

Festival footage showed Miller and a woman he had met earlier that day engaging in sexual intercourse inside a Ferris‑wheel pod at Donington Park during the Saturday of Download. The video was widely shared across social platforms and — according to reporting of the court hearing — Miller learned of the clip’s spread when his employer rang to say,

“You’re all over the internet.”

The complaint came from another festivalgoer who had taken her young son on the ride; prosecutors told the court the boy asked, “Oh my God, what are they doing?” and that his mother said the child had been left shaken and his behaviour changed since the episode (reporting in LouderSound).

When police contacted the woman involved, she apologised and admitted the offence and was not prosecuted, while Miller initially declined to comment but later pleaded guilty in court. His lawyer described the episode as a “moment of madness” and said Miller was “thoroughly ashamed and embarrassed” (reported by LouderSound).

The case is a reminder that large festivals are public spaces where private behaviour can have public consequences — legal, reputational and emotional — and that viral videos can escalate ordinary incidents into criminal complaints. Miller is reported to be studying civil engineering at Nottingham College (IBTimes), and the bench made clear that online attention did not affect the court’s outcome (NME).