HC Deb 11 March 1964 vol 691 c64W
71. Mr. Parkin

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what inquiries have been made, with a view to prosecution for living on immoral earnings, of the owner of premises in Berwick Street, Soho, from the third floor of which a prostitute recently fell to her death owing £1,680 in arrears of rent.

Mr. Brooke

The Commissioner of Police informs me that inquiries have been made into the circumstances of this case, but that no evidence has been found which would justify a prosecution under the Sexual Offences Act, 1956, in connection with these premises. The sum of £1,680 was an award by way of damages in an action for trespass.

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