Police withdraw soliciting charge
PA Dunedin A charge of soliciting against a Dunedin housewife has been withdrawn by the police in the District Court at Dunedin, and the woman was awarded $6O costs. The woman’s counsel, Mr D. J. More, said that while the woman, aged 23, in a statement to the police may have admitted prostituting herself, there was never any evidence that she had offered her body for prostitution. While soliciting, or offering her body, was an offence, prostitution was not, Mr More said.
Crown counsel, Mr W. J. Wright, said the police evi-
dence against the defendant was in the statement she herself had made at the time of the police raid on the premises where she was employed. He conceded that there was no evidence that the woman had been soliciting but she had been a prostitute. Judge Jamieson said the woman’s statement did not go far enough to show that she had committed an offence and he said the charge should he withdrawn and her name suppressed.
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