User talk:Lynnetansey

My name was Lynne Simpson prior to my marriage. I was a prostitute in Plymouths notorious Union Street in the hot summer of 1976. I am mentioned in the refernce of this page. Though the link does not work automatically & you need to be a memeber of `something` to do so. I can say I know what the link is though! Its a newspaper article from the Wetsern Morning News on the 25th anniversary of when I was charged with the murder of a client called Charles Alexandra McCloud. It was a noted trial in the law circles, as it was at the time the Yorkshire Rpper was still at large. It was also one of the first cacses where the prostitute survived her attacker & turned the tables to kill him. I got a not-guilty because he had attacked me & it was in self defence. I was tried at bristol High Court in 1977. I tried to get criminal compensation..not for the money but as a way for law to accept my situation at a time when prosatitutes were never given criminal compensation & at a time when any previous conviction wre read out to the jury, to defame your character. Whether you were a witness for the prosecution or the defence! No other person was treated in this manner, not a murderer, a paediophile or a terrorist! I was refused criminal compensation on the grounds !that I did plave myself in a position of danger`! I campaigned for a chasnge in law to give any prostitutes the right to compension. Eventually this was allowed & the survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper where the first to get criminal compension in UK law! I moved on with my life & became a counsellor for those who were homeless with drugs/alcohol problems, setting up a goverment funded agency called Plymouth Resettlement. Also helping another support agency to set up a branch which would support prostitutues in Plymouth. After a few years I burnt out with luittle emotional support around me. i then married & moved to Tintagel & am now a writer & artist & support pro-prostitution organisations around the World. Helping to dispel myths & stigma`s attached to prostitution. This misconceptions can create hate & fear towards women & men in this profession who have an hard & dangerous life style as it is!