Abstracts: December 2005
01-Dec-05
Five jailed over sex trafficking
According to this article:
Five Albanian men who made a £2m fortune from trafficking young women into a prostitution ring jailed for a total of 63 years. The offence has never before been tried at a UK court. Four brothers - Flamur Demarku, Xhevair Demarku, Agron Demarku, Bedri Demarku- and a friend, Izzet Fejzullahu. Victims lured to the UK with promises of work or sightseeing trips, but ended up trapped in the prostitution ring.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article
/0,2763,1655575,00.html?gusrc=rss
01-Dec-05
Sixty-three years for sex trafficking gang
According to this article:
Five Albanian men who made a £2m fortune from trafficking young women into a prostitution ring jailed for a total of 63 years. The offence has never before been tried at a UK court. Four brothers - Flamur Demarku, Xhevair Demarku, Agron Demarku, Bedri Demarku- and a friend, Izzet Fejzullahu. Victims lured to the UK with promises of work or sightseeing trips, but ended up trapped in the prostitution ring.
- http://www.dehavilland.co.uk/webhost.asp?wci=
default&wcp=NationalNewsStoryPage&ItemID=
15104755&ServiceID=8&filterid=10&searchid=8
03-Dec-05
Why would men not pay for sex?
According to this article:
Lad mags have rebranded prostitution as simply a guilt-free extension of the entertainment industry.
- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10654-1901836,00.html
03-Dec-05
Victims of globalization's seamy side
According to this article:
"Globalization has transformed the world sex industry. Sex tourism - trips to patronize low-cost prostitutes in fleshpots such as Prague or Bangkok - is exploding. And sex workers from developing countries are flooding into rich countries, creating a huge market for purchased sex among men who once might not have been able to afford it." "Sex trafficking is a significant problem in the United States...but it is far worse in Europe, which simply lies closer to much of the developing world. Western Europe has been inundated with prostitutes from the former communist East, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa - some of them duped or forced into virtual slavery. A decade ago, less than 20 percent of the women in London's brothels were foreigners, but these days it's 80 percent, according to a report last year by the Poppy Project, a charity." "The United Nations estimates that sex trafficking is a $7 billion-a-year global business."
- http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/13316235.htm
04-Dec-05
Luck of the Irish
According to this article:
London
Donal MacIntyre investigation into Albanian Mafia prostitution ring. Multi-million dollar sex trafficking in London. (Program apparently originally aired prior to 2002)
MacIntyre Investigates - Trafficking, TV3, Thursday, 8.30pm.
- http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/
0,2106,3501124a1869,00.html
08-Dec-05
Albanians jailed for human-trafficking in Britain
According to this article:
Albanians Akil Likani and Gjergj Mungiovi-Kuka pleaded guilty to sex trafficking a Lithuanian woman. Likani sentenced to 6 years in young offenders' institution. Mungiovi-Kuka sentenced to 4 years in young offenders' institution.
- http://newsfromrussia.com/society/
2005/12/08/69517.html
09-Dec-05
Sex workers ‘should not be given Asbos’
Opinion
Prostitutes in Camden should not be punished with anti-social
behaviour orders (Asbos), according to a new report from the
London Assembly.
- http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/content/hamhigh/news/
story.aspx?brand=NorthLondon24&category=
Newshamhigh&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=
newshamhigh&itemid=WeED08 Dec 2005 18:31:11:687
11-Dec-05
Police hunting prostitute's killer seek drivers of two cars
According to this article:
Glasgow:
Emma Caldwell murder investigation. Police issued an appeal to drivers of two vehicles seen near spot where body found, May 8, 2005.
- http://news.scotsman.com/glasgow.cfm?id=2384132005
15-Dec-05
Gossip led to PC's wife being exposed as brothel madam
According to this article:
Swansea / Haverfordwest: Julie Hyett, girlfriend of Welsh constable, John Thomas, was exposed as brothel madam and given 15 month sentence (suspended for 2 years). Both Hyett and her 18 yr. old daughter had been working as prostitutes.
- http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/
tm_objectid=16485989&method=full&siteid=50082&
headline=gossip-led-to-pc-s-wife-being-exposed-
as-brothel--madam-name_page.html
15-Dec-05
U.N. Report Focuses on 'Invisible Children'
According to this article:
Children being trafficked for sex and other forms of exploitation number an estimated 1.2 million a year.
See: "State of the World's Children" (UNICEF)
- http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-unicef15dec15,1,7842727.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true
20-Dec-05
Women's project bids to block lapdancing club
According to this article:
Dublin / Stringfellows: Ruhama objecting to Peter Stringfellow's application for lapdancing licence.
- http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=
166694366&p=y66695x7z
21-Dec-05
Strip club licence hearing adjourned
According to this article:
Dublin / Stringfellows: "Dublin District Court has adjourned the hearing of an application for drink and dance licences for a lap dancing club at Parnell Street in Dublin city. The Dublin North City Concerned Residents Association is objecting to the licence application."
- http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/1221/lapdancing.html
23-Dec-05
Decision in New Year on Liverpool's call for prostitution zone
According to this article:
"Liverpool will learn in the New Year whether it has won government backing for a managed prostitute zone. If it gets the go-ahead, the council will start again to gather information about a suitable site."
- http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100
regionalnews/tm_objectid=16515686&method=
full&siteid=50061&headline=decision-in-new-year-on-
liverpool-s-call-for-prostitution-zone-name_page.html
25-Dec-05
Whores indoors as sex trade goes hi-tech
According to this article:
Street prostitution all but disappeared from sight in Dublin. Gangs trafficking women into Ireland. Ruhama objecting to Stringfellow's lapdancing licence - short journey to prostitution.
- http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.
php3?ca=9&si=1532862&issue_id=13463&printer=1
26-Dec-05
Pointing way out from life on the street
According to this article:
Prostitutes Outreach Workers project is described.
- http://calibre.mworld.com/m/m.w?lp=
GetStory&id=177436441
28-Dec-05
Lapdancing club in battle with locals
According to this article:
Peter Stringfellow is facing bitter opposition to his proposed lapdancing club on Parnell Street in Dublin. Locals believe it will bring down the image and safety of the area which has a girl's secondary school, toy shop, cinema and corporation flats for young children. The North Inner City Residents Group spokeswoman Maria Mhic Mheanmain said: “The residents are not only appalled but are fearful of how this proposed establishment will affect the area, which is residential and has lots of children.”
Local Labour Party councillor Emer Costello said she and her colleagues on Dublin City Council were totally opposed to the club. The licensing hearing is listed for January 4, 2006.
- http://www.irishpost.co.uk/news/story.asp?j=3702
28-Dec-05
Pair accused of sex trafficking
According to this article:
Hungarian couple, Andrea Kinga Borcsok and Atilla Makai arrested at Stansted Airport on Boxing Day. Arrest follows raid on Cuddles Massage Parlour, Birmingham. Hearing on 22 March.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/4564448.stm
28-Dec-05
Blair in crackdown on prostitution
According to this article:
A zero tolerance campaign against kerb crawlers and prostitutes will be launched in January 2006. Safe houses to be created.
- http://icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk/news/uk/tm_objectid=
16525621&method=full&siteid=50141&headline=blair-in-crackdown-on-prostitutionname_page.html#story_continue
29-Dec-05
U-turn as Labour drops plan for legal red-light districts
According to this article:
The UK government has ditched plans to legalise prostitution by creating official red light districts. Home Office Minister Fiona Mactaggart announced a crackdown on kerb crawlers and street prostitution. Kerb crawlers will risk losing their driving licences and being named in local newspapers. Current legislation allows lifetime driving bans at the discretion of the courts.
Quote:
'I'm not tolerant of the view that prostitution is the oldest profession in the world and there's nothing you can do to reduce it. 'Prostitution blights communities and is frankly intolerable. This is not something that communities have to live with. We will take a zero tolerance approach to kerb crawling. Men who choose to use prostitutes are indirectly supporting drug dealers and abusers. 'The power to confiscate driving licences already exists. We want the police to use that power more.' ~Fiona Mactaggart
Safe houses and other schemes to help women get out of the trade are to be supported by police and greater efforts will be made to close brothels. Proposals for 'tolerance' zones - where brothels would be licensed and a register of sex workers kept - have been abandoned.
Prostitution is not illegal in Britain, but is controlled by dozens of pieces of legislation. Running a brothel is against the law - so one woman selling sex from her home is allowed, but two women doing so under the same roof is not. It is an offence to procure a woman to become a 'common prostitute' or to live on the earnings of a prostitute. Vice girls are also banned from soliciting for sex in public.
- http://calibre.mworld.com/m/m.w?lp=
GetStory&id=178021701
29-Dec-05
Minister drops plan for sex zones
According to this article:
The UK government rejected the idea of creating tolerance zones which had been suggested by former Home Secretary David Blunkett. The current plan is that police should exert more pressure on prostitutes and their clients. There will also be an expectation for police to do more to help women who want to get out of the trade, by creating safe houses and other schemes. A full Home Office strategy on prostitution will be published next month.
Police in South Yorkshire have used mobile cameras to detect cars which repeatedly cruise the streets where prostitutes congregate. They have also been successful in moving Sheffield's red light area away from residential and retail areas.
- http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2
.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1297561
29-Dec-05
New crackdown on prostitution
According to this article:
As the next phase of the drive against anti-social behavior, the Home Office is publishing a prostitution strategy next month that will include a zero tolerance campaign against kerbcrawlers and prostitutes on the streets of Sheffield. Senior South Yorkshire police officers said they were already implementing a number of the recommendations in the report. Sheffield and Doncaster already had a tough "three strikes and you're out" policy regarding the driving licences of kerb crawlers. Inspector Shaun Morley of Sheffield's City Centre Safer Neighbourhood Team is quoted in the article, saying they already work closely with volunteer agencies to provide support to young women and take every opportunity to dissuade them or help them out of prostitution.
- http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle2.
aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=1297560
29-Dec-05
Zero tolerance vice vow
In the zero tolerance crackdown on prostitution, men caught kerb-crawling will automatically lose their driving licences and also have their pictures published in local newspapers. "Ministers believe that embarrassing “punters” into stopping their sordid habit is the only way to kill the trade." This policy is a massive U-turn after Home Secretary David Blunkett pledged 18 months ago to set up legalised tolerance zones. Blunkett's plan was to license some brothels and to draw up a register of prostitutes.
Many pimps who control women also run lucrative drug-supplying gangs. Around 80,000 are involved in the vice trade and around 95% are hooked on crack cocaine or heroin.
- http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/
0,,2-2005600347,00.html
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