News of raids, prosecutions, robberies, assaults etc from the world of punting
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Prostitute numbers here soar on international rugby weekends |
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Published in The Irish Independant
5th February 2012
The number of foreign prostitutes working in Dublin has increased dramatically over this weekend and the subsequent two international rugby fixtures here, according to garda sources.
The influx of sex workers for the rugby games is an annual event and gardai who have been monitoring the vice trade in Dublin estimate that the average number of between 200 to 300 prostitutes working in the city is likely to double over the weeks of the international series.
Prostitutes working out of apartments and hotel rooms in Dublin can make up to €1,000 a day, according to gardai. While many are thought to be working voluntarily, there is residual concern about foreign criminals behind trafficking young men and women here. Websites advertising prostitution showed an increase in numbers of young women, young men and transgender prostitutes working in the city last week.
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State set to seize brothel-keeper's assets |
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Published in The Evening Echo
3rd February 2012
The State has indicated an intention to make an application to confiscate the assets of a convicted brothel-keeper. Martin “The Beast” Morgan (aged 48) has served a three-year jail term imposed in March 2008 by Judge Frank O’Donnell.
He had been convicted by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of organising prostitution and running a brothel at Bachelor’s Walk apartment in the city centre on dates from August 22 to October 10, 2005.
He was also fined €24,000 by Judge O’Donnell who described his activity as: “A magnificent operation, highly sophisticated and highly rewarding and not a petty little business working on a shoestring.”
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Highgate brothel manager on the run after three-year prison sentence |
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Published in The Ham & High
3rd February 2012
A Highgate vice queen who ran a string of brothels “like a dictator” has been jailed for three years. Tugba Atila, 32, earned at least half a million pounds a year from more than a dozen bordellos she managed. The brothel manageress, who was in a relationship with a law firm worker, is being hunted by the police after failing to show up at Southwark Crown Court today (Friday, February 3).
The court heard how the illicit premises in Tottenham and Wood Green were staffed largely by cash-strapped women from eastern Europe who serviced local Turkish men.
Officers lifted the lid on the operation after carrying out ‘test purchases’ at one of the establishments in Seven Sisters Road.
Atila, of Ridgeway Gardens, denied a string of controlling prostitution charges at a trial which began on January 10.
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