Nottingham Sex Workers Test New Safety Tool in Trial
2024-01-09
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Nottingham-based sex workers and former industry workers urged to trial a new safety tool. Co-designed with sex workers, researchers ready for industry testing. Dr. Larissa Sandy of Nottingham Univ. Sociology School & Sam Richardson-Martin from POW Nottingham drive for improved crime reporting, targeting safety.
Tool aims to boost justice access anonymously; assists in investigations if .....
Four arrested following raids in Milton Keynes and Nottingham in connection with sex work exploitati
2023-04-03
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Hey, did you hear about the police raid that happened last week? It was about some bad guys who were making women work as prostitutes and taking their money. The police went to three places in Milton Keynes, Nottingham and Peterborough and arrested four people. They also found a lot of cash and a fancy car that the bad guys bought with their dirty money. The police had some experts with them who .....
Today is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers 2021
2021-12-17
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17th December 2021 marks the 18th International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (or IDEVASW), a day when sex workers and allies around the world gather to remember those we have lost due to stigma, marginalisation and harm.
Last year, and in previous years, National Ugly Mugs (NUM) invited you to join us and say their names. This year, we ask you to do more. We ask all of you to take .....
Nottingham MP Nadia Whittome donates part of her wages to support sex workers' charity
2020-12-13
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Labour MP Nadia Whittome has donated thousands of pounds to a Nottingham charity which supports sex workers in the city.
The MP for Nottingham East has given £7,000 to POW Nottingham, based in Independent Street, Radford, as part of her “workers' wage” pledge.
When elected to Parliament in December last year, she pledged to take home £35,000 of her MP salary .....
Six jailed for running 'conveyor belt' brothels exploiting young Romanian women
2020-11-28
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Five men and one woman have been jailed for running a brothel which exploited young Romanian women to be sex workers.
The gang’s business model was to advertise the sexual services of young women on the internet, and then move them from town to town across Lancashire - including towns near Bury.
“We want to offer help and advice for people who think they may be victims of hu .....
Rapist who robbed sex workers at knifepoint jailed
2020-11-28
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Aaron Gardner, 29, "derived pleasure" from "terrifying and humiliating" five women who he met and robbed in hotel rooms, a court heard.
Over the course of three months last summer, the court heard, Gardner "booked sexual services" and arranged to meet the women in London, Birmingham and Nottingham.
Judge Gregory Dickinson QC, sentencing, said Gardner had st .....
Sex worker, 19, sees up to 21 clients a day and says demand is SO high she sees men just two minutes
2020-11-05
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A SEX worker, who is in such high demand she sees men just two minutes apart, has revealed what her job is really like.
Ellie, 19, from Nottingham, who appears on Channel 5’s Adults Only, now earns a six-figure wage having entered the business three years ago at just 16.
Is this likely., customers seeing her when she was 16 and 17 were breaking the law. .....
Ellie, 19, from Nottingham, said she's close to earning six figures per year thanks to her sex work
2020-11-04
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Ellie, 19, from Nottingham, said she's close to earning six figures per year thanks to her sex work during a segment on Adults Only: S******* 9 to 5,' airing tonight at 10pm on Channel 5.
The sex worker, who has been in the business for three years, was seen on the show waiting for clients in a Manchester hotel room she had booked for her 'weekend of work.' .....
Nottinghamshire couple ran Lincoln sex work ring where Chinese women saw 12 clients a day
2020-08-18
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A Nottinghamshire couple ran a prostitution ring where Chinese women would see up to 12 'customers' for sex each day.
Philip Godfrey, 47, and Lam Lai Man, 52, used encrypted instant messaging apps to find the women, who were often not familiar with Britain or its language.
The women would then travel to Lincoln and be taken to a flat where they would remain for almost an entire .....
Sex workers' heartache is exposed in Band of Gold at Nottingham Theatre Royal
2020-01-18
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A review of the play 'Band of Gold'.
From the moment a minimalistic set slides into place and reveals Bradford’s red-light district, with Gaynor Faye’s hardened sex worker, Rose proclaiming ‘no one works the Lane without my permission’ – we enter a world of sleaze and crime. .....