Bournemouth.....It's Not Just The Young Who Can't Behave Themselves
Man, 95, arrested for kerb-crawling Wednesday September 20, 02:32 PM
A 95-year-old man has been arrested during a crackdown on kerb-crawlers at a popular seaside resort.
The pensioner was detained by officers after he was seen to pick up a prostitute in Bournemouth, Dorset, but he was let off with a reprimand because of his age.
Inspector Mark Kelly said: "He had been driving around, picked up a girl, took her somewhere nearby and officers intervened as they were getting down to sexual activity. They arrested him and brought him in but the custody sergeant felt a reprimand would be most suitable rather than put him through the courts system. We felt with his age it was not in the public's interest to proceed any further."
During the six-month crackdown, police arrested 40 men in the town seen looking for sex and of these, 35 will be attending a rehabilitation course.
A letter may also be sent to the licence holder of the vehicle which could mean their spouse or employer.
Since April, 26 prostitutes have been arrested in the town and 35 'working women' have been cautioned - up almost nine-fold on the cautions handed out the previous year.
The Bournemouth Evening Echo is notorious for running annual 'clean-up' Bournemouth campaigns and it runs scare stories about young East European women being sex slaves, the evils of prostitution, it puts pressure on the Dorset Police Service to do something about it.
They often run name and shame campaigns where the names and addresses of those convicted in court are put on the front page. A few years ago one of their campaigns went wrong when an undercover reporter phoned one of the working girls numbers and recognised the women's voice - it turned out to be his editor's wife.
The Echo is a bit two-faced about this because it runs adverts for massage parlours and escorts and sex chatlines, when the current Editor was asked about this he admitted that the paper and its publishers were being hypocritical but said that under current advertising standards as along as the advert wasn't gratuitous he was obliged to run it.
4 comments:
News papers are so hypocritical aren't they.
Still they have got to make money and if that involves tapping into our deepest taboo then hey [!]
I know, it's stange - the headline says "I was a Sex Slave in Boscombe," - page 20 column 3 says "Give buxom blonde a call for a good time."
I spent 30+ years in Bournemouth and sometimes 3 or 4 times a year. And around Derby Road not far from the home where Lilly Langtry once lived there were a couple of really lovely hotels.
But one had some trees that ran down one side of it but if you were in one of the 1st storey or higher bedrooms you could see the prostitutes waiting for business late at night.
Hi Gildy,
one of my work colleagues husbands was working in Derby Road recently and when he went for lunch he found a 'working girl' sat in his van - she said she thought he was a punter - this despite the fact that he was clearly working.
It's estimated that 95% of the street girls are on drugs or doing it for pimps who are on drugs which is very sad.
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