Private prosecution for rape Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/private-prosecution-for-rape/ Since 1975, the English Collective of Prostitutes has been campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers and our families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:24:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://prostitutescollective.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/favicon-260-x-260-150x150.png Private prosecution for rape Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/private-prosecution-for-rape/ 32 32 Podcast: Good Sex Bad Sex – Rape on Trial https://prostitutescollective.net/podcast-good-sex-bad-sex-rape-on-trial/ Sat, 09 Nov 2019 16:56:44 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=9134 How do you have good sex and why do we have so much bad sex? Join Bibi Lynch and Miranda Kane, a Professional Prude and ex-Sex Worker, in conversation with sexperts, sex-haters and sexy muthers. Think good cop bad cop… But with more handcuff action. A podcast from Metro.co.uk. CLICK HERE and scroll down to […]

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]]> DIVA: Theatre review – No Bad Women https://prostitutescollective.net/diva-theatre-review-no-bad-women/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 21:15:57 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=9129 A harrowing watch, but an important one, says Jane FaeBY JANE FAEThere must be cheerier ways to pass a Saturday night than at a play about the real life events surrounding a long ago rape trial. Catching the latest Ken Loach, perhaps. Or listening to the collected speeches of Nigel Farage.But if you can stand […]

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]]> Ham & High: Landmark rape case brought by Kentish Town campaigners is turned into a play https://prostitutescollective.net/ham-high-landmark-rape-case-brought-by-kentish-town-campaigners-is-turned-into-a-play/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:10:04 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=9123   Lisa Longstaff of Women Against Rape and Niki Adams of the English Collective of Prostitutes outside Crossroads Women's Centre in Kentish Town where they are based In 1995 Women Against Rape and the English Collective of Prostitutes joined forces to bring England's first private prosecution for the assaults on two sex workers, now a […]

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]]> Thomson Reuters Foundation: Sex workers denied justice over rapes, says UK prostitutes’ collective https://prostitutescollective.net/thomson-reuters-foundation-sex-workers-denied-justice-over-rapes-says-uk-prostitutes-collective/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 22:06:24 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=9118 by Sonia Elks | @SoniaElks | Thomson Reuters Foundation   It's estimated that about two-thirds of sex workers have suffered some kind of violence   LONDON, Nov 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police and prosecutors are becoming less willing to take action over rapes reported by sex workers, the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) said as a play highlighted […]

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]]> VICE: The Legal System Failed Two Sex Workers – So They Took Their Rapist to Court https://prostitutescollective.net/vice-the-legal-system-failed-two-sex-workers-so-they-took-their-rapist-to-court/ Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:21:43 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=9111 A new play called "No Bad Women" tells the true story of a landmark trial that opened up a new avenue to justice for survivors. By Emma Garland In the 1990s, serial rapist Christopher Davies assaulted two separate women at knifepoint when they visited his house in the south of England. The first – a tattooed […]

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]]> Event: No Bad Women – Tickets now on sale! https://prostitutescollective.net/no-bad-women-tickets-now-on-sale/ Thu, 10 Oct 2019 17:07:35 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=9070 A play based on a rape trial which made legal history.“Challenging . . . uncompromising, everything theatre should be.” Tribune 2015Venue: Clean Break, 2 Patshull Rd, Kentish Town, London NW5 2LB1 – 14 November 2019 (except Sundays) 7.30pm, running time 75 minutesQ&A after shows on 1st, 8th & 12th November from 9-9.30pm, featuring a complainant and other […]

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]]> Help us raise funds to stage our play ‘No Bad Women’ https://prostitutescollective.net/help-us-raise-funds-to-stage-our-play-no-bad-women/ Sun, 28 Jul 2019 17:19:16 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=9031 In 1995 with the help of ECP and Women Against Rape, 2 sex workers brought the first successful private prosecution for rape in England & Wales, putting a serial rapist behind bars.Please help us raise funds to stage a dramatic play of the trial this November! https://www.gofundme.com/no-bad-women#NoBadWomen #MakeAllWomenSafe

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]]> The Guardian: Landmark rape prosecution revisited in courtroom drama Pursuing Justice https://prostitutescollective.net/landmark-rape-prosecution-revisited-courtroom-drama-pursuing-justice/ Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:09:03 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4310 A new play by Lesley Delmenico, to be presented in London, is based on the transcript of a 1995 trial of a man accused of raping two prostitutes Lisa Longstaff from Women Against Rape, director Lesley Delmenico and Niki Adams from the English Collective of Prostitutes. Photograph: Sarah Lee The first-ever private prosecution for rape […]

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]]> Camden New Journal: Pursuing Justice sex workers take their rapist to court https://prostitutescollective.net/pursuing-justice-sex-workers-take-rapist-court-cnj/ Thu, 04 Jun 2015 21:00:45 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4302 DAN CARRIER WHEN two sex workers were raped at knifepoint by the same man and the Crown Prosecution Service did not act, the pair made legal history by using a private prosecution to get their attacker before a judge and jury themselves.Now the transcript of the groundbreaking 1995 legal case has become the basis of a […]

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]]> The Guardian: Grassroots attitudes obstruct search for justice https://prostitutescollective.net/grassroots-attitudes-obstruct-search-for-justice/ Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:22:56 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=2530 Sandra Laville,It is 27 years since the documentary A Complaint of Rape caused an outcry and forced a sea change in the way police forces treat allegations of rape and sexual assault.The groundbreaking film showed a woman, who alleged she had been raped by three strangers, being bullied and cajoled by male police officers who dismissed […]

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