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Kerb-crawling protests are falling on deaf ears

Published in The Edinburgh Evening News
7th May 2013

Scotland
A REVIEW of kerb-crawling laws to crack down on prostitution in Leith has been called for amid concerns that evidence rules are making convictions all but impossible.

Residents have called for a review after claiming men who repeatedly circle in their cars near Leith Links and then pick up “known prostitutes” are
escaping prosecution because, police say, someone must have overheard their conversation before they could be charged.

Rob Kirkwood, of Leith Links Residents Association, said: “We see cars stopping, a conversation going on between a known prostitute and the prostitute getting into the car. We have given numbers to the police, but they say ‘You didn’t hear what was going on’.

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Man jailed for assault on woman in Glasgow

Published by The BBC
7th May 2013

Glasgow
A man has been jailed for 18 months after being convicted of seriously assaulting a woman in central Glasgow. Czech national Jiri Kandra attacked the woman, who was working as a prostitute, in Cadzow Street, on 13 April 2009.

The 33-year-old was originally charged with raping the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, but a jury acquitted him of the allegation.

At the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Doherty told Kandra that he had no other option but to send him to prison. He added: "The fact that the complainer was acting as a prostitute at the time of the offence has no effect on the protection to which she is entitled to under the law."

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Prostitute banned from Newcastle Street, Stoke

Published in The Sentinel
7th May 2013

Staffordshire
RESIDENTS have welcomed police action to ban a prostitute caught soliciting near their homes. Kelly Hughes is not allowed in Newcastle Street, which runs from Burslem to Middleport, at night under the terms of her anti-social behaviour order.

The 30-year-old has now been fined for breaching the order, after a police officer spotted her in the area two hours after her curfew started.
 
Magistrates at North Staffordshire Justice Centre were told Hughes said she was on her way to have a drink with a friend when she was spotted in Newcastle Street shortly after 8pm on April 13. She is prohibited from entering the area between 6pm and 8am.

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