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Trial over trafficking and prostitution in Laois and other counties collapses

The trial of two women accused of trafficking women to Portarlington and other towns around Ireland for prostitution has collapsed. The human trafficking and prostitution trial collapsed “due to unforeseen circumstances” but is expected to begin ...

08 Feb 2023 at 19:33

Labour: Young people being trafficked ‘into cannabis farms or prostitution’

Young people are being trafficked across the Channel to the UK and then “into cannabis farms or into prostitution”, Labour has suggested. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said there is a “pattern” of young asylum-seekers being trafficked to ...

26 Jan 2023 at 13:42

Scotland

Greens’ role in Scottish Government blocked prostitution reform, Regan claims

Prostitution reforms were hampered by the Scottish Government’s power-sharing agreement with the Greens, Ash Regan has claimed. The former SNP MSP defected to Alba in October 2023, a year after quitting as community safety minister over her ...

11 Mar 2024 at 00:01

Paying for sex should be ‘outlawed’ to crack down on trafficking – minister

Paying for sex should be banned in Britain in a bid to stop women being trafficked into prostitution, a Home Office minister told MPs. Sarah Dines said the demand for sex workers was “part of human nature” but she wanted to see it ...

19 Jul 2023 at 16:50

Crime & Court

Prison terms increased for traffickers after forced prostitution

Two Nigerian women who forced their human trafficking victims into prostitution after a 'voodoo ceremony' in the first ever conviction of its type in Ireland have had their jail sentences increased by the Court of Appeal. Alicia ...

26 Feb 2023 at 18:33

Scotland

Regan’s push to Nordic prostitution model deemed ‘disaster for sex workers’

Criminalising the purchase of sex would be a “disaster for Scottish sex workers”, campaigners have said as they criticised Alba MSP Ash Regan’s proposed Bill. Ms Regan opened a consultation on introducing the so-called Nordic ...

28 Aug 2024 at 13:39

Roscommon woman previously charged with human trafficking sentenced to jail for money laundering

Local News

Woman previously charged with human trafficking sentenced to prison for money laundering

A woman has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for money laundering charges. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that Ivanilce Vailones (47) of Castle Manor, Racecourse Road, Co. Roscommon, pleaded guilty to five counts ...

28 Jun 2024 at 16:33

Northern Ireland

Pensioner gave teenagers heroin in exchange for sex work, court told

A pensioner supplied vulnerable young women with heroin in exchange for them working as prostitutes as part of a “catalogue of offending”, a court has heard. Belfast Crown Court was told Oliver James MacCormack is now ...

28 Mar 2025 at 12:19

Pimping websites dubbed the ‘Etsy of exploitation’, as MPs urge Government ban

MPs have been told pimping websites are the “the Etsy of sexual exploitation” that make trafficking “as easy as ordering a pizza”. During the second reading of the Crime and Policing Bill Conservative MP Rebecca Paul ...

10 Mar 2025 at 22:41

Scotland

Alba MSP lodges Bill to criminalise the buying of sex in Scotland

A Bill that would criminalise the buying of sex in Scotland while decriminalising those selling sexual services has been lodged at Holyrood. Alba MSP Ash Regan said her Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) ...

20 May 2025 at 00:01

Scotland

Former prostitute backs Alba MSP’s Bill to criminalise those buying sex

A former prostitute has told how she feared she would be murdered “every day” as she gave her backing to a Bill that could see men jailed for buying sex. Alba Party MSP Ash Regan has introduced a member’s Bill at ...

20 May 2025 at 15:02

Minister has ‘significant and deep concerns’ about Alba MSP’s prostitution Bill

Scotland

Minister has ‘significant and deep concerns’ about Ash Regan’s prostitution Bill

A Scottish Government minister has highlighted “significant and deep concerns” about a new Bill which could quash convictions for those involved in prostitution. Siobhian Brown raised concerns about the move, ...

30 Jun 2025 at 13:33

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