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Sex Trafficking and Prostitution
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 United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland

August 2005: Prostitution

 
 
United Kingdom 05-Aug-05 Massage parlour clears its name Ham & High Broadway
Jonathan Marciano
  Crouch End
Lanacombe
Editorial
Licence renewed after police objections withdrawn.  Police inquiry re: prostitution triggered by Eaves women's charity. Study: "Sex in the City" investigated sites across London believed to be selling sex. In 2002, Josephine Daly was ordered to hand over more than £2million earned from Lanacombe and two other saunas - women smuggled from Thailand and Eastern Europe
 Ireland 06-Aug-05 Headless body charge imminent, say gardai Irish Independent   Paiche Onyemaechi murder.  Prostitute and lapdancer in Dublin & Limerick.  Headless body found in July 2004.
 Ireland 14-Aug-05 Gardai launch major probe of vice trade Sunday Business Post
Barry O'Kelly
Abstract Dublin
Major Garda investigation has been launched into the vice trade, where it is claimed that immigrant women are being forced to work as prostitutes. Dedicated unit has been set up to carry out a wide-ranging inquiry into brothels, lap-dancing clubs and street prostitution in Dublin.
United Kingdom 17-Aug-05 Man on prostitute murder charge BBC News   Ronald Beardmore, married father of two, accused of beating young prostitute, Rebecca Stephenson (age 19), to death and hiding her body. Beardmore visited a lap dancing club before being seen with the victim.
United Kingdom 17-Aug-05 Sauna's illicit past is history Ham & High Broadway
David Gibbs
  Crouch End
Lanacombe
Manager Laurence Steel - Lanacombe now bona fide massage parlour with trained therapists.  New company has nothing to do with Josephine Daly.
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Scotland 18-Aug-05 Many prostitutes appear to have stopped working The Scotsman   "If ever proof was needed that the existence of a tolerance zone in Edinburgh helped encourage street prostitution, today's figures on the number of working girls still active in the city settle the argument for once and for all"
Vice girls vanishing from Edinburgh The Scotsman
Gareth Rose
  Edinburgh
Scotpep published figures showing that the number of prostitutes working in Edinburgh has fallen by more than two thirds since tolerance zone in Leith was removed.  Scottish Executive is set to discuss whether a new tolerance zone should be set up.  Further details given regarding violence toward prostitutes, etc.

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