6/25/2023 0 Comments Rebellious Slave by BillierosieIf the police discover that you have engaged in S&M activities which have caused injury, you and your partner could be prosecuted for assault. The convictions have now been upheld by both the Court of Appeal, the Law Lords in the UK and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.ġ987 is quite a long time ago, but the Spanner case has set a precedent I don’t think that the laws have been challenged since then. However the police may well have felt that they had to bring some prosecutions to justify their expensive investigation. The police learned that none of the men in the video had been murdered, or even suffered injuries which required medical attention. This investigation is rumoured to have cost £4 million. The police claim that they immediately started a murder investigation because they were convinced that the men were being killed. This followed an investigation, by the police called “Operation Spanner” prompted by the chance finding of video tapes of S&M activities.ĭuring a raid in 1987 the police seized a videotape which showed a number of identifiable men engaging in heavy SM activities including beatings, genital abrasions and lacerations. In December, 1990, in the UK, 16 Gay men were brought to trial and given prison sentences of up to four and a half years for engaging in consensual S&M activity. In 1990, the news in the UK was all about the infamous Spanner case.
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