By Sam Dimmer’It’s not rocket science – it’s just consensual sex between adults’As police in Coventry continue their seemingly never-ending battle with sex workers and their clients in the city’s red light district campaign groups are calling for a radical change in tactics.They believe that crackdowns like Operation Scarlet – the name for police efforts to tackle prostitution […]
by Frankie Mullin in Vice According to a new study, seven in ten UK sex workers previously worked in care jobs. The research, carried out by Leeds University, revealed that 71 percent of those surveyed had left health, social care, education, childcare or charity roles to take up sex work. Financial hardship was the usual reason for […]
ANOTHER PRECIOUS LIFE LOST A 24-year-old woman was murdered on Monday night in Ilford Lane, Ilford. This tragic killing comes in the wake of Operation Clearlight a major police crackdown on street prostitution in this area which began in September. Over 200 women have received “prostitute cautions” and many have been arrested for loitering and […]
We won . . . we won . . . we won . . . we won! Not guilty of breaching an Anti-social Behaviour Order See previous action alert here. Today Ms CH was found not guilty of charges of breaching an Anti-social Behaviour Order (ASBO). The ASBO bans her for 26 years from loitering […]
In 2013, a sex worker challenged charges of having breached an Anti-social Behaviour Order (ASBO) banning her for 26 years from loitering in the London borough where she lives. With the support of the ECP which mounted a public campaign and helped her prepare for court, she was found not guilty! If she had been […]
Please write urgently to protest this injustice to the addresses below. This prosecution is not in the public interest and should be dropped. Model letter below.To: Keir Starmer, Director of Public Prosecutions privateoffice@cps.gsi.gov.ukCPS, Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HSCc: CPS North East Case Progression Team london.magistratesnortheast@cps.gsi.gov.ukThe Cooperage 8 Gainsford Street, Bermondsey, SE1 2NE. (DX161230 […]
Please join sex workers and supporters 9.30 – 10.30am Wednesday 12 June, Stratford Magistrates Court 389-397 High St, London, Greater London E15 4SB WE ARE NOT ANTI-SOCIAL Ms CH is appearing in court today charged with breaching an Anti-social Behaviour Order (ASBO). The 26-year ASBO bans Ms CH from an area where she lives, has […]
Cari Mitchell, a spokeswoman for the ECP, commented on the police initiative which claims to target kerb-crawlers:“Security systems among women on the street will be further disrupted and women displaced into unfamiliar areas. Women will be forced to work harder and take more risks to make the same money. 70% of sex workers are mothers, […]
Sex workers in east London are facing victimisation in more ways than one leading up to the Olympic Games. There is an unholy alliance between, on the one hand, the government-driven police ‘clean-up’ operation and, on the other, often well-meaning victim support groups. The harassment leading up to the games is opposed by, among others, […]
Denis Hof, Nevada Bunny Ranch owner, proposes a temporary licence to run a brothel during the Olympics.Niki Adams, English Collective of Prostitutes, comments:“Sex workers don’t need or want licensed or legalised brothels so that bosses have more opportunities to exploit us. We want decriminalisation, like in New Zealand, so we can work together collectively and […]