Police find queue of top people in brothel

Press, 23 April 1980, Page 9

Police find queue of top people in brothel

NZPA j London] The mada of a high-class I London bfcel was sen-i tenced in | London court vesterday a er a police raid found a (ember of the House of j r ds, a Northern Ireland mpber of .Pa 111 . 3 ?, ment, and (vicar waiting in] line at herfsablishment. The na|s of the three public figps were not disclosed. But evifnce at the trial in the in r London Crown Court that the

ilbrothel’s mostly middle-aged and well-to-do male clientele /were admitted by tickets.. ■ I A $55 ticket entitled the visitor to go to a “party” at lithe brothel to eat, drink, see /pornographic movies, watch olive sex shows, and enjoy -Ithe services of 13 prosti--1 tutes. ] During a 12-day stake-out -'in December, the police said -■they saw 149 men and 50 women enter the brothel in llstreatham in south London. il Cvnthia Payne, aged 46, pleaded guilty to charges

d that included keeping a e brothel and was sentenced to 18 months, imprisonment. e In her defence, her count sei, Geoffrey Robinson, e charged that the court, in--1 stead of persecuting his V client, should seek out and - bring to trial the “endless parades of suburban male t respectability queueing and u( waiting on the stairs to take o,their turn. n ! “They took their pleasures ; iand she stands alone in the s dock.”