APPENDIX 2: Previous Campaigns

Previous calls for an amnesty from arrest have had some success. At the time of the murder of five young women in Ipswich in 2006, the English Collective of Prostitutes called for an amnesty: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6169811.stm. Although the police never acknowledged that an amnesty was in place, arrests did stop for a limited period of time and other measures were put in place that made it easier for sex workers to stop working: cash payments to women working in the sex industry, practical concentrated help with housing and benefits; a dedicated police phone line for sex workers to report suspicious incidents. The day that the Ipswich serial murderer Steve Wight was arrested the dedicated phone line was cut off.

 

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