By Subject: SEX OFFENCES (court cases)
Male/male cases where there is consent: Cottaging, Saunas, Clubs, Hotels, Private houses, Public indecency, Importuning
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- 76-year-old former J.P. bound over
- Councillor sentenced
- Councillor’s appeal
- Police stepped: mother says she stopped notes sent to son
- Teacher bound over
- Village disgraced: hiding might have saved a youth, says judge
- Bodily harm – but there were “mitigating circumstances”
- Forest crawl led to two sentences: ex-miner curate convinced
- [no headline]
- House of Commons official accused: remanded on bail
- ‘Ruin’ of a Commons official
- Vicar fined after shopping trip: plea of police error
- Rector fined after holiday
- Found guilty of serious offence
- Bound over for serious offence
- Ham telephonist fined £10
- Charge dismissed
- Clerk fined £10
- [headline missing]
- Guardsman in Park arrests
- Old Bailey jury clears doctor: youth’s admission
- Youths for trial
- Court gives advice to ex-Scout leader: shun youth movements
- Four in ‘snowball’ case
- Two years’ probation
- “Hot spot” boarding house sentences: visit by detectives
- Psychologist is accused: police tell of denial
- Engine-driver gets seven months: recorder’s comment
- Flat was watched from fire escape: two accused
- Psychologist: 8 charges
- This was the story of a ‘lost soul’
- Gaoled after strip poker
- ‘Ensnared’ after visit to luxury house
- Clerk lured to a West-End flat
- £5 man refused legal aid
- Six men write down their names
- Police look over a wall: B.B.C. men warned
- Ministry official’s sentence reduced: chief’s evidence
- “Pest-hole” says detective: tube station watch
- Remanded men in women’s clothes: after week in prison
- 10 men, two youths and a boy for trial
- Hero in female clothes gaoled
- Scandal exposed by the writing on the wall
- The dangerous age of 50
- M.P. changes plea to ‘not guilty’
- Police story of box & cox watch on M.P. in West End: charges denied, constable admits a lie
- Pantomime artists are given bail
- M.P. to appeal against Bow Street conviction: peculiar and unusual story, says Q.C.
- B.B.C. artist charged
- ‘Babes in the Wood’ artists gaoled
- M.P.’s appeal dismissed
- Detective charged
- Gaoled C.I.D. man knew of baths watch
- Priest told he needs advice
- Women walk out of court
- M.P.’s appeal lodged
- Car number on cigarette packet
- Film man sent for trial
- Detective tells of photos in room
- Priest told: “see doctor”
- Captain resigned from his clubs
- Former mayor is accused
- Former mayor to stay in hospital
- P.C. fined
- Author sentenced to nine months
- House “a pit of iniquity”
- A priest’s lost week-end
- M.P.’s appeal is dismissed
- Labour M.P. to resign
- Warrant for peer: ‘serious charge’
- P.C. shone torch in West End
- Sir John Gielgud told ‘see doctor’
- Musician accused
- Bail for accused magistrate
- A social problem [editorial]
- D.S.C. had thirst for knowledge: court plea
- Rector is sent for trial
- Lord Montagu: court cleared while scouts give evidence
- Boy Scout’s story a lie, says Q.C.: Lord Montagu sent for trial
- Montagu: crown Q.C. named
- Trial of rector is adjourned
- Jury disagree over rector
- Plea to stop rector case: second jury diagree
- Judge questions boy in Montagu case: what has made you change your mind?
- Lord Montagu cleared on first charge – jury disagree on second
- Lord Montagu: the judge sums up and gives a warning
- Rector acquitted at third trial: no evidence offered
- Musician is sent for trial
- Teacher acquitted on appeal: allowed costs
- Lord Montagu before a special court: accused with two men
- [headline missing]
- Six months’ for pianist: talented musician
- Montagu case R.A.F. men’s stories denied: Pitt-Rivers spoke of ‘witch hunt’, inspector tells court
- Actor-playwright is acquitted
- Police watch on priest
- Prosecution warns Montagu jury: ‘two witnesses are corrupted men’
- ‘Unashamed’ – Montagu case witness
- Detectives searched homes without warrants
- Wildeblood in box: I spent night in Burmese house
- ‘Not a word of truth in it’ – Montagu
- Lord Montague case: the three accused in the witness-box
- 6 months for ship’s doctor
- ‘Why this queue at trial?’
- Montagu trial jury will give verdict today
- Montagu goes to jail for 12 months
- Guilty: Montague - 12 months (front page)
- A preacher and proud of it
- The police and the Montague case [poor copy]
- The man with many friends
- It was a case of moral murder
- Detective called on a curate
- Gaoled as warning to others
- Police tell of address books
- Clergyman for trial
- Sentenced ex-officer dies in cell
- The doctor’s curiosity
- Gaol the ‘kindest thing’ for them
- Warning to blind physiotherapist
- Judge’s warning
- Teacher destroyed his career
- A town rife with rumour
- The great enemy of character
- Magistrate stops case against archdeacon
- They infested a city
- Man dead in cell left £14,686
- He spread corruption
- Q.C. spoke for ex-comrade
- Five years for man who confessed
- Surprise for the police in Mayfair
- R.N. officer is cleared
- D.F.C. broke probation
- Judge asks about a vicar’s past
- The value of his job
- Temptation and temper
- Man at baths complained
- After author had given lecture
- ‘Thugs up and down the country’
- Solicitor attacks the rumours in a town
- Ten men of shame
- They were searching for a soldier
- Men who prey on guardsmen
- The man who spun a web of vice
- Found not guilty
- Fined £5
- Currents events, by J Gordon
- His ten years their warning
- In an ‘eerie half-world’
- Groups ‘ fight against vice: London cleanup
- Famous pianist's offence 'trivial'
- Man who watched football match
- This isn't a game replied the policeman
- The man in a red dress at midnight
- [John Gordon column]
- Chaplain had some drinks
- They knew him as ‘Dad’
- P.C. went to a parked car
- Husband in notorious spot
- See your doctor dentist told
- Dressed as a girl - with all the trimmings
- Student affected by report
- Sales executive fined £10
- Week’s remand for driver
- Sent for trial
- Man banned from city
- Cook for trial
- Looked through broken window
- The warden in cell 445
- Vicar is fined
- Milford manager fined £25 on charge of indecency
- Policeman attacked me in Mowbray Park - witness
- Judge hits at vice report: part a “calamity”
- Junior minister accused of offence in the park: he and guardsman remanded
- Junior minister and guardsman remanded
- Wheatamstead man’s offence: three years probation for indecent assault (plus later item)
- Minister is accused with guardsman
- MP and guardsman accused: junior minister on ‘offence in park’ charges
- MP is accused of indecency in Royal Park: junior minister and the guardsman
- The schoolmaster's day In London
- Remand on bail for M.P.
- [John Gordon column]
- Mr Ian Harvey resigns: premier thanks him for work
- Ian Harvey fined £5: one charge dropped
- Ian Harvey [and the guardsman] fined £5
- [John Gordon column]
- Wolfenden: what do you think (Gallup Poll)
- Indecency charge - Lurgan man cleared: ‘alleged statement was not true’
- Man is called cancer in Lurgan society [bad copy]
- Just nosey, he stayed to watch
- Bench order remand
- Traveller fined £50 in city
- [headline missing]
- Tragic background to indecency charge
- Gross indency charges: 13 men for trial
- Police kept watch on lavatory
- Letter: Soho spider’s web, by M Kildare
- A peep-hole in the town hall floor
- The ‘imprudent’ visitor to London is acquitted
- A plea for the ex-organist
- Kendal indecency charges: Assizes reference to “chain reaction”
- Six Frome men charged: unnatural offences alleged: two kept in custody
- A mental defective: Assize decision in case from Penzance
- Remands Penzance: thirty offences listed in one case
- From floral dress to grey suit
- Absolute discharge for solicitor
- Trouble all the way
- John Cranko fined
- Men sent for trial on indecency charge
- Student and labourer for trial
- Former youth officer sent to jail: assize trial of Frome offenders
- £25 Fines on student and rigger
- He saw emotional film, man told police: fined for soliciting
- Sentenced for indecency
- His life in ruins
- Men and youths sent for trial
- Two Notts men for trial
- 24 Vice cases at Oxford
- Students fined after vice swoop: three Oxford girls jailed
- Letter: In need of help, by A Hallidie Smith
- Five men admit offences: Devon Assize cases
- Four committed to sessions
- Two men fined £15 each
- Teacher and P.C. for trial
- Homo went to police out of pique
- Sorry to see so many of these cases
- Swindon hotel proprietor released on bail
- Conditional discharge
- Three years probation
- Two are acquitted
- Ex-petty officer is fined £20
- Mechanic, clerk each fined £20
- Teacher's offence
- Clerk loses job and pension: fined for assault on P.C.
- [headline missing]
- Letter: Two cases, by A Hallidie Smith
- Two fined
- [headline missing]
- Two fined £20 for indecency
- [headline missing]
- Men who must be ashamed
- Four men for trial [badly marked copy]
- Gross indecency cases
- Two heavily fined
- Difficult cases
- Two men in car sent for trial
- Sent for trial on indecency charge
- Wandsworth Common man fined
- Warrant out for man’s arrest
- Two fined
- Name stays on list
- Cinema assault on P.C. alleged
- Letter: homosexuality, by W Destefano
- Letter: [no title], by S Morrison
- Three accused of indecency
- Deputy mayor acquitted
- Guilty plea to indecency
- Depressing indecency
- Explains that he panicked
- [headline missing]
- Offences at Worthing
- Indecency charge
- Indecency by men
- Man not guilty but bound over: procedure under 1361 measure
- Absentee held
- ‘Dated’ by doctor, man alleges
- Men fined for indecency
- Indecency charge
- Two for trial
- Indency by men
- Circle of ‘vicious men of substance’ in West Bromwich
- ‘Nest of depravity’: judge’s verdict
- Two men charged with indecency
- Found guilty
- Alleged incident at cinema
- Milford men’s “disgraceful” offences: Quarter Sessions deceisions
- man insane
- Men’s indecency
- Wolfenden revisted, by A McCowan
- Appeals against indecency verdict
- Fled to Ireland
- N. Staffs. men for trial
- Indecency charge
- Man accused of indecency
- 2 men sent for trial
- Prison for TV producer
- Claims innocence
- Cafe proprietor and docker charged
- Three for trial on indecency charges
- Indecent acts charge
- [headline missing]
- Sentence deferred on cafe proprietor
- 12 men face serious charges
- Two remanded on indecency charge
- Archdeacon to resign
- Collapses after hearing charge
- [headline missing]
- Men described as ‘filthy beasts’
- Naval officer dismissed the service
- For trial on charges of indecency: two Windermere men among 12 committed
- Sent for trial
- Pensioner fined
- Alleged offence against policeman: man sent for trial
- Seven men are sent for trial on serious charges
- Two jailed for 12 months
- Case of gross indecency [part missing]
- Jailed for offence on soldier
- Case adjourned
- Father of two for trial [damaged copy]
- A police case flops and men gets cost
- A school teacher and insurance agent for trial
- Actor cleared
- Accused teacher resigned
- Indecency alleged
- Labourer sent for trial
- ‘No evidence that vicar corrupted’
- Sir Ian Horobin on indecency charges
- Inquests theory of sex practices
- Sex theories in “carbon copy murders”
- Men kissed and cuddled in motor car - police allegation
- Three men fined
- Three men fined
- Retired man accused
- Ex-director jailed for four months Scotland
- Security over juries
- Two fined £35 for serious offence
- Two men jailed
- Railway clerk fined
- Fishworker wrote letter to the judge
- Steptoe actor “thought it a nightmare”
- Five men gaoled for indecency
- Civil servant’s “great career snapped”
- Three get costs against police
- Deny ‘slap’
- Civil servant wins his appeal
- A ‘new thrill’ reply quoted to court
- Parish ban on vicar
- Cause and effect in crime and punishment
- Allegation of political frame-up: journalist’s trial Pa
- ‘Political chicanery’ alleged
- 10 accused of sex offences: ‘love letters’ story
- Men on sex charges are sent for trial
- ‘Tempter’ is gaoled for 18 months: ‘love-letter’ sequel
- Research chemist is ‘ashamed’
- Criminal law: gross indecency: lack of consent: whether third man party
- Homosexual offences [parliamentary report]
- Men for trial on indecency charge
- Indecency charges
- ‘The shame’ - his punishment
- Indecency charge
- “Place becoming an absolute sink”
- Toilet incident
- “In 99 cases out of 100”
- Vice between men - and a city’s police
- Sent for trial
- Criminal Law: Gross Indecency
- Letter: Male importuning, by F Elmes
- For trial at sessions
- Recorder clamps down on ‘filth’ case facts
- Accused man found dead
- Indecency admitted
- Two Weston men for trial
- Not wrong in Germany, he said
- Stop these rituals
- Graffiti and the subterranean mind, by Christopher Martin
- Poole recorder gives warning
- Indecency like this will not be tolerated
- Poole recorder’s warning
- Police and press: good and bad ways [editorial]
- Three sent for trial
- Winchester City Quarters Sessions
- For trial
- Indecency charges
- Scribble, scribble, scribble, by J E Percival
- Law student sues police (law report, High Court)
- ‘Detective lied’ law student alleges
- Two men sent for trial
- Librarian gaoled for indecency
- Bridgford man put on probation
- 9 men face serious charges (offences)
- ‘Remorseful man’ gets six years
- Two Kidderminster men for trial
- Homosexuals - big switch in policy
- Homosexuals - MPs study policy change
- DPP to advise on homosexual prosecutions
- New action on vice law
- New policy on homosexual prosecutions: police ordered to consult DPP
- Homosexuals and the law [editorial]
- MPs want to know more on sex cases ruling
- Blackmail and the law
- MP talks of vice link
- Four fined in whipping case
- Party “girls” were men dressed up...
- Six ‘women’ arrested were men
- Two men for trial
- Men in wood, court told
- Two sent for trial on bail
- Solicitor may be struck off
- A juror was mistaken
- Jail for man who wants to be a woman
- Misbehaved near bandstand
- Sent for trial
- Winchester men for trial
- Judge warns on indecent offences
- Put on probation
- Alleged acts in a shed: two men committed for trial
- Letter: Police observation, by W Bluhm
- Judge hits at ‘broadminded’
- Two Worksop men fined
- Ex-butler cleared of youth charge
- Abnormality exploited: Court of Criminal appeal
- ‘Discouragement of a court’
- Doctor gaoled for indecency
- For trial on indecency charges
- Bishop to give convicted parson another chance
- What I told MP, by Dr Ramsey
- Convicted clergy: primate explains
- Homosexual offences
- Primate replies to M. P. on convicted clergy
- Convicted clergy: the Primate replies, by John Redfern
- Sex bill: Primate explains
- Clergy: Dr. Ramsay explains
- Points from replies, by Sir Elwyn Jones (Attorney General)
- House of Lords to rule on ‘kerb crawling’
- Written replies: homosexuals
- Letter, by R J Webb, Chairman of Police Federation
- Convicted clergyman
- Primate attacked in homosexual debate: House of Commons
- Minister’s pledge on homosexual sentences
- Letter: homosexual minors, by Meg Lynn
- Referred to the DPP: Attorney General. Written. 16 February
- Homosexual offences
- Letter: crime and sin, by Antony Grey
- (details of case of threat to accuse of sodomy)
- 29 blondes get marching orders form ‘sex’ case, by Frank Goldsworthy
- Judge stops sex case to remove schoolgirls
- Comment: sympathy
- Indecency charge: two for trial
- Letter: vandalism, by J Swift
- Sex law change will free prisoners
- Doctors affirm obligation of secrecy
- Accused Minister collapses in court
- Letter: wrong values?, by Geoffrey P T Paget King
- Letter: “an invasion of privacy” (name not published)
- Two city men fined £5
- Sex sentences may be reviewed
- Sex prisoners
- Vice cases review
- Sex sentences review likely
- Evidence of character
- Man ‘due to have sex-change operation’
- Man accused
- Jail ‘would make you a greater menace’
- Two men fined in indecency case
- Court told ‘what policemen saw’: four men and a woman for trial
- Sex bill M.P. wants ban on adverts
- M.P. hits at “gay bachelor” adverts
- Men who gather at a hoarding
- Homosexual seeks monastery place
- The case of the undone mini-dress: surprise for the lorry driver
- Review of law on soliciting
- Letter: in law, there is no such person
- Letter: male prostitutes: the law, by Edward Rivers
- £40 fine for indecency
- Homosexual touting in UK: ‘yard’ inquiry
- Archbishop charged: Athens Tuesday
- The continuing story of Laurence Bell
- Ex-naval officer sent for trial
- Guards vice charges: one for trial
- Former naval officer sent for trial
- Clean up this cinema of vice: ‘other places have the problem’
- 3 guards, company director for trial
- Director and guardsman for trial
- Laurence Bell flies to Brazil
- Bill to curb kerb-crawlers
- Kerb crawlers beware
- Landlady’s ‘love nest’ allegation: I don’t understand – tenant
- Peers reject bill to end “menace” of kerb-crawling
- Bishop of Exeter speaks in Lords on street offences
- Move to extend street offences act defeated
- Sexual Offences Act, 1967; procedure
- Director is fined £700 in guards case
- Interior decorator fined £700: invited guardsmen to country homes
- Guards case chief fined £700: troopers did it ‘simply for the money’
- Director fined in £700 in guardsmen case
- Doctor fined for indecency with guards
- Man in vice case with guards is fined £700, by Arnold Latcham
- Designer paid guardsmen for indecency
- Director fined £700 on indecency charges
- Guardsmen case man fined £700
- Soldiers ‘in vice probe took money’
- Trooper found not guilty
- 3 guilty of homosexual charges: Judge Graham Roberts
- Naval Officer cleared
- Letter: What’s good about King’s Road?, by Chelseaite
- Loitering deleted from street offence bill
- Paths of glory
- Letter: vice, by ex-metropolitan police officer
- Letter: combating vice: police methods are defended
- Secret mission halts case,
- Our brothers’ keepers: the needs of the Irish in Britain, by Michael Keating
- Marine indecently assaulted detective
- Lecturer's lapse: "moment of mental aberration", police in waiting after hint in letter
- Lecturer's lapse: in moment of "mental aberration"
- "Mental aberration": lecturer's letter to a youth