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01-Apr-05 |
Notorious massage parlour faces the axe |
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Crouch End Hill Lanacombe (Massage Parlour) Madam: Josephine Daly Note: See Guardian Article Sept. 29, 2000 |
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03-Apr-05 | Ritual killing link to corpse in canal | Sunday Mirror Deirdre O'Donovan |
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| Info re: Nigerian lapdancer Paiche Onyemaechi. Gardai believe she was murdered by her pimp, a man close to her who forced her into prostitution. Her husband, Chika Onyemaechi, reported her missing. Nigerians have told gardai it is likely the killer brought the head to Nigeria where it will be used in rituals. Chika Onyemaechi spotted by Interpol in Lagos. | ||||
| http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20050403/ai_n13508577 | ||||
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03-Apr-05 | Special Report: Crack Cocaine Crime Plague | Sunday Mail |
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| Police study reveals hookers' pounds 300-a-day habit will spark huge rise in drug-related muggings and break-ins. (Article also available through Proquest database) | ||||
| http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5009122136 | ||||
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04-Apr-05 | Judge praises teen prostitute's efforts to beat drugs | Ireland Online |
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Dublin 17 year old heroin addict. Mother-Pimp |
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05-Apr-05 | Kerb crawlers dig deep to change | BBC News Jamie Thompson |
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| Day long programme for men arrested for kerb crawling. Only 3 out of 400 participants re-arrested. | ||||
| http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/4397945.stm | ||||
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10-Apr-05 | Family ran £4 million brothel empire | Life Style Extra |
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London and Essex Eastern European sex slaves Trial of traffickers/brothel owners |
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13-Apr-05 | 'Sex map' slated by town's Bishop | Stockport Express | |
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Greater Manchester Right Rev Nigel Stock, Bishop of Stockport, has called a map published by George McCoy which points punters to "hot-spots" "de-humanising". |
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13-Apr-05 | Vice girl tolerance zone Bill hit by third delay | The Scotsman |
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| Scottish Parliament debate originally scheduled for April 2005 delayed until October 2005 to allow parliament's local government committee to consider Scottish Exec. response to expert group report. | ||||
| http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=390112005 | ||||
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14-Apr-05 | Brothel attack: Youth in court: Wimbledon teenager faces charges of raping prostitute | Wimbledon Guardian | |
| 17 year old in court. Sexual assault with pistol and then rape. Violent gang rape of "foreign sex worker". (Note: Is there an investigation into immigration status of victim?) | ||||
| http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=390112005 | ||||
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14-Apr-05 | Madam guilty | This Is Hertfordshire Alex Galbinski |
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North Finchley Brothels: Finchley Follies, Lucindas, Whetstone Wenches Simon de Freitas, former Metro police officer. |
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| http://www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk/misc/print.php?artid=587702 | ||||
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16-Apr-05 | Bang-bang, bling-bling; Northern Ireland | The Economist | |
| Loyalist paramilitaries running prostitution rings. | ||||
| http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3868631&subjectid=348993&tranMode=none | ||||
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16-Apr-05 | Brothel attack: Youth in court | This is Local London | |
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Tooting 17 yr old boy charged with raping a prostitute after sexually assaulting her with the barrel of a handgun. Allegedly one of a gang of men who raided a brothel, robbed a client and carried out a gang rape. |
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| http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/misc/print.php?artid=588449 | ||||
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18-Apr-05 | Sex comes out of the city into middle England | The Guardian David Smith, Tony Thompson and Gaby Hinsliff |
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| Government ponders legalisation as explosion in prostitution sees number of sex workers rise by 50 per cent in five years to create £770m business | ||||
| http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1194445,00.html | ||||
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19-Apr-05 | Ulster kids targets for prostitution | Belfast Telegraph Brian Hutton |
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| Northern Ireland's Children's Commissioner Nigel Williams: warning re: criminal gangs / child prostitution in NI. | ||||
| http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=630921 | ||||
| 19-Apr-05 | Number of prostitutes rises 40 per cent | Stuff New Zealand |
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| Prostitution Law Review Committee's benchmark report 40% rise in prostitutes in the New Zealand sex industry since decriminalizing prostitution. | ||||
| http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/section-item.asp?sid=12&iid=1448 | ||||
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20-Apr-05 | First ASBO tackling prostitution in Leeds | West Yorkshire Police Press Release |
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Leeds First Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) for prostitution resulting from a criminal case issued to prostitute. |
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21-Apr-05 | Duncan Smith slams red light zone | BBC News | |
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Liverpool Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has condemned plans for Liverpool's prostitution tolerance zone. |
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| http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/vote_2005/england/4470505.stm | ||||
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25-Apr-05 | Call for nurses to support legalised prostitution | The Scotsman Lyndsay Moss |
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| Andrea Spyropoulos will propose a motion at the Royal College of Nursing's annual congress asking nurses to consider whether they support legalising prostitution in the UK. | ||||
| http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4458074 | ||||
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26-Apr-05 | UK nurses have voted in favour of decriminalising prostitution | BBC News Caroline Ryan |
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| Overwhelming majority of nurses agreed prostitutes should no longer be the subject of criminal prosecutions but did not back the wholesale legalising of prostitution. | ||||
| http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4487237.stm | ||||
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27-Apr-05 | Decriminalise prostitution, nurses urge | Guardian John Carvel |
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| The Royal College of Nursing has called on the government to decriminalise prostitution. | ||||
| http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5180815-110247,00.html | ||||
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28-Apr-05 | Teenage ‘daisy chain’ sex alert | Times Online Nigel Hawkes and Sam Lister |
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| Royal College of Nursing’s annual congress report: problems encountered from playground sexual crazes to the repercussions of sexual abuse, prostitution, drug use and self-harm. | ||||
| http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1588791,00.html | ||||
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30-Apr-05 | London brothel accused of recruiting Kenyan girls | East African Standard Gitau Wa Njenga |
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London 32 yr. old woman brothel owner recruited through false advertisements on community website. |
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