By Subject: SOCIAL CONTROL
Blackmail, Extortion
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- 4 years of blackmail by boy aged 16
- Stoker got £6,000, three years’ sentence for blackmail
- Preyed on others: gaoled men told their conduct was a menace
- ‘Mr. X’ says threats made him run away: youth of 17 accused
- Guilty plea in menaces case: demands to “Mr. X”
- ‘The Guv’nor’s’ pose to trap victims: ticket-of-leave man was a society playboy and racegoer
- Mr. X tells of phone talk about photos
- Tell vicar threat denied by youth: three letters quoted in ‘Mr. X’ blackmail accusations
- Judge names ‘Mr. X’ as an ‘evil-doer’
- Ex-guardsman asked about the perils of Piccadilly
- Retired commander is cleared: jury stop case
- Attempted blackmail
- Man at the foot of the bed, says Mr. X
- Rendezvous at Speakers’ Corner
- Alleged to have been nearly penniless
- Vice victim of blackmailer
- It was a case of moral murder
- A loathsome type of blackmail
- Policemen gaoled on menaces charge
- Dr. X and a night in the West End
- What about the victim if the blackmailer can’t sleep?
- Blackmail – crime that destroys a man’s soul
- Visitor returned as a thief, court told
- Blackmail victim got film star publicity
- Mr X will be witness
- At 19 he was blackmailer
- Three for trial in Mr. X case
- Two youths tried blackmail
- ‘Mr. X’ says he was blackmailed for return of £200
- Mr. X’s story of man back from the dead
- Mr. X gave a lift to a stranger
- He bit the hand that fed him
- Blackmailer a ‘devoted family man’
- Seven years for blackmail: demands on "man of eminence"
- The well-spoken bachelor advertised for a help
- Tax man accused of demanding money with menaces
- 'Tailed' her uncle and unveiled blackmail
- His knife was as sharp as his wits, he said
- Brought shame on his family
- £5,000 demanded from Mr. "X"
- Blackmailer 'bled' In terror of phone
- He met a dark stranger and was blackmailed for 2½ long years, by L Kirby
- £8,800 by "slow torture": seven years for blackmailer
- His years of torture end
- £8,800 obtained by blackmail: 7-year sentence
- The man afraid of a ring at the door, by A Latcham
- A slow, calculated merciless process of torture…
- Ex-batman Is bound over for 20 years: blackmail case
- Clergyman's ex-valet
- Jury hear tape recording “admissable as evidence”
- Letter: When perversion pays, by “A.H.S.”
- Student denies £2,000 demand: Mr X a witness
- Letter: Blackmail, by “Engineer”
- Blackmailer sentenced to nine years
- Broadmoor patient says he had access to any drug
- Scrap this law that breeds blackmail, by D Wells
- Mr Fletcher-Cooke resigns: “Error of judgement” the reason
- Youth drove while under ban: Mr Fletcher-Cooke’s car
- Accuser to remain anonymous
- Only Christian talent?, by Lord Altringham
- Letter: The state of our security services, by J Sparrow
- Blackmail made easy?
- Homosexual a ‘helpless target for thief’
- Tory M.P.’s statement on ‘personal honour’
- I gave helping hand - M.P.
- M.P.’s statement on ‘personal honour’
- M.P. and personal honour
- Homosexuality
- Blackmail safeguard
- Homosexuals U.S. security risk
- MPs want to know more on sex cases ruling
- Blackmail and the law
- MP talks of vice link
- Homosexuals: why the new move? Brooke must tell, says MP
- A challenge facing two men
- Lift this life of despair, by M Furlong
- Bricklayer and Mr X: blackmail charge
- Two cleared of blackmail
- Letter: parasitic crime, by Alan Horsfall
- Letter: vulnerable, by S Francis
- ‘Blackmailers extorted millions of dollars’
- Homosexuals pay up to nation-wide blackmail ring
- Blackmail ring exposed
- Blackmailers extorted millions
- USA blackmail ring extorted millions
- Sex blackmail ring exposed: victims paid out millions of dollars
- U.S. blackmail ring has extorted millions – report
- 17 held in Hollywood stars blackmail case, by Henry Thody
- Millions (?) U.S. ring nets: Pentagon officer blackmailed by gang for homosexuality
- 1,000 U.S. victims of blackmail
- Huge blackmail ring
- Homosexuals ‘paid millions in blackmail’
- U.S. blackmailers uncovered
- Blackmail ring extorted millions of dollars
- “Extortion ring”
- Extortion gang made millions
- Million dollar blackmail ring smashed, by Antony Currah
- Letter: homosexuality, by “51 years a Tory”
- Letter: homosexuals, by onlooker
- (details of case of threat to accuse of sodomy)
- Blackmail and the homosexual
- Nasty case smells of blackmail – Judge
- The spycatchers: they track down listening devices hidden in carpet tracks, ink pots, wall lamps and cigarette pockets in the anti-bugging war, by Jack Aitken
- Sex bill will not stop blackmail – M.P.
- Blackmailing ring preyed on homosexuals
- Extortion ring broken
- Blackmail ring smashed
- Two more get 4 years in menaces case: one cleared of separate charge
- Man is jailed for Mr X blackmail