70 yr old min wage cleaner convicted for running brothel after attempting to save mans life.

[HelenaDove]

Her prosecution has left Britains sex workers reeling.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/02/cleaners-convicted-brothel-managers-law-prostitutes?CMP=twt_gu

My heart bleeds for her

She had posted the advert online and kept a register of clients but she was just a cleaner? How does that work?

She was running a brothel, she wasn't just a cleaner and the fact that she's 70 is irrelevant. She chose to work in that environment rather than get a cleaning job elsewhere, presumably for more than £6 an hour as that's less than minimum wage.

I'd like to know what the author's links are to prostitution.

It's a very disingenuous article. Fine to argue that the law is not doing the job it should be, but the innocent elderly cleaner shtick just makes it look like the author has an agenda. As many of the commenters on the Guardian article seem to agree.

What a load of tosh. The minimum wage isn't £6. Every single person who employs a cleaner would be overjoyed to get at cleaner at that price.

This is by the same journalist. It's tosh too.

'It's a weird, sexy family': priced-out London strip club bids a fond farewell

www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/16/shoreditch-strip-pub-club-closed-priced-out-london-gentrification?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

My first thought is who is paying the author for these articles? Or does she get involved with these sort of people so they come to her with stories?

www.theguardian.com/profile/frankie-mullin

She is a member of the English Collective of Prostitutes and the Sex Workers Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM)

"According to the ECP, which has been supporting Norman, other women in the parlour were too frightened to come forward with evidence that could have cleared her name. "

So the solution clearly isn't prostitutes working together to protect each other, as is very often posited.