Why is this illegal

[kingbee]

as someone who has visited single independent escorts in Hotels (albeit Belfast) I dont understand why such a fuss - perhaps because its such a small town etc but as far as I understand Escorts are perfectly entitled to rent rooms in Hotels!!

http://www.midulstermail.co.uk/news/...town-1-3626427

[LaBelleThatcher]

as someone who has visited single independent escorts in Hotels (albeit Belfast) I dont understand why such a fuss - perhaps because its such a small town etc but as far as I understand Escorts are perfectly entitled to rent rooms in Hotels!!

http://www.midulstermail.co.uk/news/...town-1-3626427

Ruhama are currently trying to pass that same article off, obliquely, as evidence of trafficking in NI!!

Escorts are entitled to rent rooms in hotels, of course, but I think the hotel is committing an offence of they knowingly allow her to see clients there...but slightly different north and south.?

[Martin41]

What a completely stupid misinformed idiot journalist.
Bloody lunatic/ religious/ assholes with nothing better to do than completely misrepresent facts

[Banjaxed]

I don't think it's "illegal", as in criminal per se.

The article is simply hearsay ("claims") as opposed to actually stating that any action other than a search (on the basis of powers conferred from existing human trafficking legislation) was carried out. As for the hotel, the guest is engaged in a contractual relationship with the hotel and I'm sure that they can end that relationship at any time should they wish to to breach of some terms which were either express or implied in the booking (i.e.: immoral activity).

I'll have to double check what the situation is down here in relation to searching hotel rooms, I'd imagine a search warrant would still be required and came across a similar scenario recently but can't for the life of me remember the outcome.

[kingbee]

so its more of an embarrasment simply for escort and client - he has done nothing wrong(visiting a hotel guest) she 'immoral activity' - i guess this covers all those married men having affairs with their mistresses!!! bonking away on thir dirty weekends

sex happens in a hotel

running a business from your room - well how many sales reps entertain customers in hotels too

its all a bit grey but i guess the hotel reserves the right to chuck anyone out- escorts, rock stars, drunk violent people etc

cant see any criminal angle for a truly genuine single independent

[LaBelleThatcher]

What a completely stupid misinformed idiot journalist.
Bloody lunatic/ religious/ assholes with nothing better to do than completely misrepresent facts

Don't hold back on account of us ladies Martin - say what you really think

I wonder...is there any chance at all that the lady in question is around?

If so, would she have the courage to speak out and state what her position is? Even if she had to create a new ID to do it?

Or give a statement to E-I staff to preserve her privacy? Last time I checked the best antidote to a load of BS was the truth.

[Banjaxed]

so its more of an embarrasment simply for escort and client - he has done nothing wrong(visiting a hotel guest) she 'immoral activity' - i guess this covers all those married men having affairs with their mistresses!!! bonking away on thir dirty weekends

sex happens in a hotel

running a business from your room - well how many sales reps entertain customers in hotels too

its all a bit grey but i guess the hotel reserves the right to chuck anyone out- escorts, rock stars, drunk violent people etc

cant see any criminal angle for a truly genuine single independent

Exactly, I don't believe there is or was any criminal liability in this case, and if it were to be replayed down here I don't think it would do so either. What this sounds to me is the type of coverage all local newspapers do every once in a while to stir up feelings about some dark underworld on people's doorsteps while usually the opposite is true.

While you're on the hotel property, you're basically a visitor, you've permission to be there within the terms of the booking (read contract) and there's certain terms either expressly wrote in the small print or implied. So they reserve the right to refuse business or to terminate your visitor status, at which point you become a trespasser. It's more from an civil liability perspective at that point and into duty of care, etc., etc. under Occupiers Liability.

So to me, it sounds like another incident of wasted and misdirected police resources like the ones which the London Metropolitan Police and their elite SCD9 (trafficking unit) are being condemned for by an expert group set up by their own Mayor, due to their random raiding of escorts and some brothels due to baseless "suspicions" of human trafficking.

And for every waste or misdirection of scarce resources, you can be sure someone else is getting away free.

[Morpheus]

as someone who has visited single independent escorts in Hotels (albeit Belfast) I dont understand why such a fuss - perhaps because its such a small town etc but as far as I understand Escorts are perfectly entitled to rent rooms in Hotels!!

http://www.midulstermail.co.uk/news/...town-1-3626427

Forget about legality....did the reporter even read his own article?????????

The report clearly states that the escort was ENGLISH. Poor girl was obviously evicted or asked to leave -which goes to show the unfairness of the system, given that escorts are treated with disdain, but I digress.....

The rest of the article jumps straight to trafficked women linking this lady with trafficked women!!!!!

Hello!!!!!!! The escort was English!!!!! She doesn't need to be trafficked into Northern Ireland which last time I checked was still part of Britain!!!!!

It just goes to show how the media is determined to equate escorts with trafficked women!!!!!!!! I am beyond mad!!!!!

[ladiesman217]

Well there's some more fine evidence (like we really needed more) that clearly shows that neanderthals are still alive and well..... It really amazes me how morons like this imbecile immediately assume all escorts are trafficked/forced/etc. The same thinking that stops them from realizing that probably the best way to cut trafficking is to legalise and regulate the entire industry, and in doing so make it safer for those who work in the industry. Course said people actually believe that they can permanently eliminate the oldest profession in the world. Pfft no wonder the world's economy (ours especially) is fucked.

[LaBelleThatcher]

The rest of the article jumps straight to trafficked women linking this lady with trafficked women!!!!!

Ruhama put it on their Facebook page with this comment:

Detective Superintendent Philip Marshall at a Mid Ulster evnt last week said that the issue of human trafficking and prostitution was very much present in County Tyrone. “We have carried out investigations into human trafficking and prostitution in Co Tyrone within the last twelve to eighteen months. Recently we have carried out searches in a number of locations across Northern Ireland, including Dungannon and Cookstown.” He added: “Prostitution is here in County Tyrone. It is organised crime and huge criminal benefit is being made from this in Tyrone.”

Now that is the truth bent a long way past breaking point, at least by implication.

If you have to bend the truth like that to make your point then YOU HAVE NO POINT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

I am seriously veering towards the belief that the whole "trafficking" issue is just BS and hot air to further an agenda, and TO HELL with how many people that agenda harms. If the facts don't fit, pretend they did fit anyway and chance it most people will never check.