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Mum and son brothel owners convicted By Radio Exe News She ran eight of them in Devon
A mother and son have been convicted of running brothels in Exeter and Torquay.
They profited from the unusual - and illegal - family business that exploited women in the county as well as handling criminal property.
Edwina Kalay, 59, admitted managing eight brothels, plus a joint offence of money laundering –relating to the transfer of more than £98,000 through her bank accounts – and an offence of possessing in excess of £3,000 worth of criminal property.
Kalay, using the name Edwina Christian-Stockwell, was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court to two years and eight months imprisonment for managing the eight brothels. She receive two years and four months, and three months, respectively, for the money laundering offences which she ll serve concurrently - meaning no extra jail time.
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Little support for Burgh Island pirates By Daniel Clark, local democracy reporter 13 objections to statue
Objections have been raised against plans for a statue of two real-life female ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ overs fears it would glamorise violent criminals who contributed nothing to the local heritage.
Plans were announced last month for 2.4 metre tall sculptures of two of Britain’s forgotten pirates, Anny Bonny and Mary Read, to be installed at Burgh Island.
The pair wreaked havoc throughout the Caribbean in the early 1700s. Some historians have claimed the women became lovers, while others suggest they formed a three-way relationship with Anne’s husband, the English pirate captain Jack Rackham – more commonly known as Calico Jack.
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Public Health England (PHE) officials are resisting senior doctors' calls to halve the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.