Sheridan and his wife ran the club where swingers met to have sex with
each other, often as others watched. But residents complained about
activities there and brought in their own private investigator to
infiltrate the club.
Karen Holt, persecuting, said up to 60 men attended Pandora's Party
nights held there every Wednesday night. The event was run by a
prostitute who called herself Pandora, Hove Crown Court heard. She paid
rent for the use of the club to Brian Sheridan and had two other
prostitutes working with her.
The privte investigator said Pandora and her girls had group and
individual sex with clients in the club's games room while other men
watched. On a second visit a month later he saw a leather-clad man and
woman build a torture rack in the club's main play area. The man was put
face up on the rack and blindfolded before being whipped and given
electric shocks as hot wax was poured on his chest. Other guests used
rooms in the club's 'Wicked Chalet' for sex while being watched by male
customers.
Sheridan and his wife, from Cobham, Surrey, were arrested and denied
managing a brothel between November 2005 and June 2006. Sheridan changed
his plea to guilty before his trial was due to start. The prosecution
offered no evidence against Mrs Sheridan who was found not guilty on the
direction of the judge.
Judge Cedric Joseph said he will almost certainly give Sheridan a
ten-month prison sentence suspended for two years. However, he adjourned
sentence until August 11 so that a decision can be taken on how much
unpaid community work Sheridan must do.
A
brothel madam responsible for several locations throughout the Thames
Valley has been handed a 12-month prison sentence.
Kimberley Davis led a “lavish lifestyle” from a seven-bedroom detached
house from where she ran six brothels from February 2006 until January,
this year.
The madam, known to punters as “Dominique”, told estate agents she
earned her £92,000 a year salary as an aromatherapist, which enabled her
to rent and buy a string of properties in Reading town centre,
Bracknell, Swindon and Basingstoke.
Davis employed 20 women either as prostitutes or cleaners – including
her 16-year-old daughter – a Reading Crown Court judge heard .
Her childminder and cleaner, Barbara Harvey, known as ‘nanny’ to Davis’s
two boys, appeared alongside the brothel madam and was handed a 16 week
prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, for the “lesser” part she
played in Davis’s operation.
Alan Blake, prosecuting, explained Harvey was responsible for placing
adverts in papers in Basingstoke and Reading, Auto Trader, and at
Reading railway station.
Davis was charged with six offences of keeping a brothel and one of
money laundering while Harvey was charged with one offence of keeping a
brothel in relation to the Hurst address.
Rupert Pardoe, defending, told Judge Zoe Smith that Davis had not
coerced the women into a life of prostitution and they had all given
consent.
Pardoe said: It was an entirely well run and orderly business where
the people involved worked in a safe environment.
Davis will have her financial assets and income assessed before her case
returns for a confiscation hearing at Reading Crown Court for directions
on November 27.
A
Scarborough couple who ran a brothel from a terraced house in the town
have been jailed for six months.
Neil Hamlet and his wife Wendy were sentenced at York Crown Court after
admitting managing a brothel at 6 Rothbury Street between June 2006 and
June 2007.
They also pleaded guilty to keeping a brothel for prostitution at 35
Tennyson Avenue, Bridlington, from December 2006 to February 2007.
Dr Tina Dempster, prosecuting, said their girls were self employed and
charging £60 for half an hour, of which the Hamlets were taking at least
half: They effectively provided the premises. There were staff rules
pinned up on the reception desk. It's fair to say it doesn't seem there
was anything particularly fixed about the number of girls. They would
come and go as they pleased.
On June 7 last year Wendy Hamlet contacted the police to inquire as
to whether it was lawful to conduct an escort business.
Anne Munday, in mitigation for Wendy Hamlet, said: The local tax
office was informed and their income was declared. She was under what is
now obviously the false impression that the business was being tolerated
in the local area.
The couple were also ordered to forfeit £427.50 each under the Proceeds
of Crime Act.
Sex
traffickers who kept women as "slaves" have been jailed for a total of
almost 13 years.
Fei Zhang and his "second in command" Suzhen Xu supplied girls from
China and Thailand to brothels in Walsall, Wolverhampton, Dudley and
Worcester.
Zhang was sentenced to eight years and Xu received four years and nine
months.
The brothels were raided in March 2007, Worcester Crown Court heard.
Many of the women were forced to pay back a £25,000 bond before they
could send money home to their families.
Judge Alistair McCreath said they kept the young, vulnerable women as
slaves because they were not allowed to leave the four brothels across
the West Midlands. The court heard there were about 20 to 30 girls
working in Worcester over a three-month period and many were not allowed
to leave the building. After working they were locked in their rooms.
No doubt the police operation and arrest were reported with lots of
hype about trafficking. And yet again trafficking proves elusive to find.
The supposed scale of the crime is a political invention being used to
justify news laws against prostitution.
Two
Eastern-Europeans who ran a brothel in Southall have been jailed for a
year each today.
Andrius Zubinas and his girlfriend, Edita Zubkova were each sentenced to
12 months in prison at Southwark Crown Court after being found guilty of
controlling prostitution.
The pair were arrested by officers from the Met's human trafficking team
on December 6 at the brothel in Lady Margaret Road, Southall.
Both Zubinas and Zubkova were cleared of charges of human trafficking at
the same court.
A
man who ran porn shops and sold adult films without a licence
has been jailed for four months.
Donald McEwan was sentenced by Manchester magistrates after
pleading guilty to six offences.
McEwan was charged after police and officers from the council's
licensing and trading standards units carried out raids on the
Big In Amsterdam shop in Tib Street and the Film Factory in
Hilton Street where videos and DVDs were seized.
Three years ago he was convicted of identical offences and was
fined. This time the judge told him there was no option but a
custodial sentence.
The offences all related to McEwan running unlicensed shops in
Manchester city centre's Northern Quarter, as well as selling
R18-rated films without a licence and films that had no official
age certification.
He was given four three-month sentences to run concurrently and
one month, to run consecutively, for non-payment of fines
imposed in 2005.
Coun Eddy Newman said: McEwan tried to side-step the
council's strict controls and attempted to avoid the licence
fee, therefore gaining a commercial advantage over those who
operate within the law.
You
will not have seen it in the news, because for some reason the CPS
didn't call a press conference to announce it, nor did they send out a
press release for sub-editors to paste verbatim into their rags, but a
recent Operation Ore case in Belfast was concluded when the prosecutors
came to court and offered no evidence - that's NO evidence.
It was ordered that the defendant should be acquitted, and so ended
his 4 year ordeal. It's also now extremely likely that the remaining Ore
incitement cases in NI will be dealt with in the same way.
No evidence, because every single piece of the prosecution case - that
the accused had used his credit card to pay for child porn - had been
showed to be flawed beyond recognition.
A
woman who ran brothels which earned more than £1m was yesterday jailed
for 12 months.
Annabel Wise ran a brothel at Middle Way, Summertown, Oxford, for almost
four years in an operation a judge labelled "substantial".
Oxford Crown Court heard claims police had turned a blind eye to
the brothel until residents started to complain.
Wise earned about £50,000 a year from the business, while the rest of
the money was kept by the prostitutes working there.
Peter Coombe, prosecuting, said Wise's brothels took in about £600 a day
- with an estimated turnover of £1.27m over six years. He said when
police raided the two-bedroom house last November they found one client
and three prostitutes, as well as a part-time receptionist.
Coombe said: The prostitutes were spoken to and it became perfectly
clear that all of the ladies involved on that premises were there
voluntarily. There was no suggestion or question of duress.
Coombe said Wise, who admitted keeping a brothel was described to the
police as a good boss who cared about the prostitutes' safety. He said:
There was a laminated menu which set out the services which could be
provided and the prices.
Tim Boswell, defending, said Wise ran the brothel to make money but also
out of a genuine desire to protect prostitutes. He claimed police knew
about the brothel because Wise had reported concerns about a prostitute
she believed was being forced into the trade by a pimp.
Boswell said: This brothel was run for several years with the full
knowledge of the police. Miss Wise's understanding was that the police
would turn a blind eye as long as the brothel was not disturbing anyone
and was not a place for drugs or illegal immigrants. It may be that she
was lulled into a false sense of security by the police not prosecuting
her at that stage.
A
business man sold uncertificated pornographic DVDs at shops and
garages in Swindon.
Philip Tobias was ordered to pay more than £6,000 after admitting 11
counts of owning and selling the explicit adult films at Swindon
Magistrates' Court.
He also asked the court to take another nine similar counts into
consideration relating to more than 100 films.
The court heard that Trading SubStandards officers seized DVDs,
which did not show the legally required classifications, in a number
of operations during February and March last year.
Rosie Bone, persecuting, told the court Tobias' XXX Sales company
had a £42,000 annual turnover and he paid himself a £20,000 a year
salary from the proceeds of selling the blue movies out of the back
of a van.
Bone said some of the films would most likely have been given R18
certificates, meaning they could have only been legally sold in sex
shops and not in garages and newsagents.
In an interview with the police and Trading Standards, Tobias said
that he had run his business selling adult material for three years.
Gordon Hotson, defending, said: We are talking about selling
uncertified DVDs. We are not talking about films containing children
or unlawful material. These DVDs were adult in nature, but had not
been put through the film classification board.
After serious consideration magistrates ruled that they could have
sentenced Tobias to a jail term for the offences, but in light of
his previous clean record agreed to hand out a financial punishment
instead.
He was told to pay £300 for each of the 11 counts, and an extra
£3,000 towards persecution costs.
A
man has been jailed for 21 months for his part in a business selling
pornographic DVDs and videos in the UK.
Michael Fowler was one of five men involved in the business - run
from Belgium - which detectives said netted nearly £2m at least
between 2005 and 2007.
Judge Charles Gratwicke described the material as revolting and
disgusting as he handed down sentences totalling more than 10 years,
following a hearing yesterday at Chelmsford Crown Court.
Unemployed George Buchanan who ran the operation from his home in
Blanenberge, Belgium, was given a seven-year term. The judge said
Buchanan was extradited from Belgium after fleeing, was the central
figure.
Unemployed John Dormer who copied and distributed DVDs and tapes,
was given a 12-month term. Printer Stephen Fisher who printed
brochures advertising DVDs, was given an 18-month term.
Fowler and Malcolm Winter, the business cashiers, were each given a
21-month term.
All five admitted conspiring to supply obscene material and
conspiring to launder money.
A
salesman who turned to a life of vice after falling in love with a
prostitute has been jailed for 12 months.
Faisal Sheikh fell into the business of running brothels after
paying his Thai wife-to-be for sex.
Sheikh made more than £30,000 from oriental girls who dressed up in PVC
nurses' outfits offering punters a "menu of sexual activities".
He was arrested after police raided a brothel at Windmill Lane,
Stratford, London on September 5 last year.
Detectives found he was also controlling bordellos in Claremont Road,
Forest Gate, and Great Cumberland Place in the West End.
Sheikh admitted three counts of managing a brothel used for prostitution
and eight counts of transferring criminal property.
It was raided on September 5, 2006, after police from the Met's Vice
Squad raided properties listed in the classified section of local
newspapers.
Sheikh's wife was arrested and admitted to assisting in the management
of a brothel. She was jailed for eight weeks.
Judge Dodgson told Sheikh he was "intelligent and industrious" but that
he did not accept Sheikh had run the brothels for "philanthropic"
reasons. Sheikh was jailed for 12 months.
A
man who ran a sex business in Eastbourne town centre has narrowly
escaped a spell in jail.
David Pye was given a 12 month jail sentence suspended for two years.
But because he has been declared bankrupt he will not have to pay any
court costs and only £1 of the £122,000 which he was said to have made
from the brothel can be confiscated.
The court heard Pye, a father of three, made the money over an 18-month
period when he was running the brothel in Susans Road. He advertised the
brothel, known as Mermaids, in local publications.
Police raided the building after a tip-off from Pye's ex-partner, Alison
Hooper, that prostitutes were working from the premises. Fifteen
officers stormed the building in August 2006 and discovered three women
working as prostitutes at the time and a male client who was with one of
the women.
Pye was arrested some weeks later and a long police investigation began.
Pye, who has since been declared bankrupt admitted charges of running a
brothel and living off the proceeds of prostitution when he appeared at
Lewes Crown Court last year. He was back in court in Brighton to be
sentenced by Judge Paul Tain.
Rebecca Upton, defending Pye, noted that none of the women working as
prostitutes were underage, working against their will or were being
mistreated. The court heard a health visitor had also seen the girls
working at the brothel and gave them a clean bill of health and believed
they were working there of their own accord.
Judge Tain told Pye he had crossed the custody threshold and sentenced
him to 12 months imprisonment but suspended it for two years. Pye was
also ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work.
A
brothel manager has been jailed for running a covert sex shop in a spa.
Paul Chapman employed illegal immigrants to offer sex to customers at
the Carlton Spa in Orpington, London.
Chapman was jailed for 10 months after pleading guilty to management of
a brothel at Croydon Crown Court.
Bromley council sent a private investigator to act as a bogus customer.
He visited the brothel in and was offered sexual services for up to £140
an hour. He returned a few months later and was offered the same thing.
Prosecuting, Philip Jones, said: It was discovered that the spa was
being advertised on the internet, featuring a large number of females in
provocative poses.
Police with a search warrant raided the shop soon afterwards and found
that the girls working there were illegal immigrants. Some have since
been deported.
John Blandford, defending, said there was no evidence that any of the
girls were the victims of exploitation. He said: They were free to
leave; no-one was imprisoned there. They turned up for work, did their
shift and went home again. It might not be everyone's idea of a career.
No-one was forced into it.
A
man who pleaded guilty to selling pornographic films at Chalon Way Car
Boot Sale, St Helens was fined and ordered to pay costs totalling
£1,480.
He was arrested in a joint car boot sale operation between St Helens
Council’s Trading SubStandards section and Merseyside Police.
He was caught in possession for the purpose of supplying 17 hardcore R18
DVD films. R18 films can only be legally sold through officially
licensed sex shops.
Five
women have escaped jail over their involvement in a chain of brothels
after a judge ruled no-one had been harmed.
Rooms at three premises in Cardiff and one in Swindon were rented out by
prostitutes and their clients, Cardiff Crown Court heard.
Prosecuting, Robin Spencer QC said the brothels were in operation
between May 2004 and October 2006, and typically took a combined total
of £11,000 cash per week.
Diana Jones, who managed all four brothels, admitted managing a brothel
used for prostitution and concealing criminal property.
But Judge John Curran ruled she would not be sent to jail. He said:
These are crimes which carry a maximum sentence of seven years under the
Sexual Offences Act, where prostitutes are coerced, pressured or
threatened in some way, but this does not apply in this unusual case.
The only aggravating feature is the scale of the operation, as no
trafficking has occurred. There clearly was no intention to harm people
and no reason to suggest any individual has suffered any physical or
psychological harm.
He added that police knew about the premises and officers often visited
them to check there were no drugs, illegal immigrants or under-age women
working.
Paul Lewis QC, defending Jones, said a BBC documentary team interviewed
workers at the Twice as Nice Parlour on Woodville Road, Cardiff,
that Jones managed. It was only then that Jones realised two of them
were illegal immigrants, but he said she had not helped traffick them to
the UK or coerced them into prostitution.
Jones was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, suspended for two years.
She was also given a community order of 18 months' supervision and
ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work.
Four others pleaded guilty to assisting in managing a brothel used for
prostitution and were each sentenced to four months' imprisonment
suspended for two years with a community order of supervision for 18
months.
Blight's mother admitted paying bills for the brothels at her local post
office with cash given to her by her daughter. She pleaded guilty to
possessing criminal property. She was sentenced to four months'
imprisonment, suspended for two years, with a community order of
supervision for 18 months.
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