Shock over brothel claims
It looks like a slighty shabby but otherwise unremarkable detached home in a leafy Midlands hamlet favoured by well-heeled pensioners and professional people.
But neighbours were today shocked over claims that the red brick house with its double garage and bay windows is a high-class brothel - complete with its own dungeon.
Suspicions were aroused by the expensive sports cars which regularly parked in nearby streets and the number of young girls walking the streets. Police carried out a dawn swoop on Talbot Cottage.
The five-bedroom house is situated in Worcester Road, Mustow Green, near Kidderminster.
Two men and two women were arrested in the raid at around 5am on Wednesday. Police also seized guns, drugs and a quantity of cash.
Neighbours reported up to a dozen police entering the large 1950s detached house and seizing property.
A man and a woman from Mustow Green are currently in police custody helping with inquiries. The other man and a woman from Redditch were released on police bail pending further investigations.
A woman aged in her 40s who answered the door at the house last night refused to comment.
Neighbours told police they believe the property has been used as a high-class brothel for at least the last six months.
One neighbour said she had put up with endless nights of bawdy noise and bright lights which shone over her fence into her property.
Another neighbour clai- med the property was being advertised on the internet as a brothel with overnight stays costing up to £650. There was even a blue tent permanently erected in the back garden where activities were alleged to have taken place, she said.
Neighbours suspected all was not right after spotting expensive sports cars such as Porches parked up in nearby streets on a regular basis and young girls walking the street.
One neighbour received an anonymous letter informing her the house was being used as a brothel and advertised on the internet.
The property is being rented but a woman who came out of the house and spoke to the Express & Star refused to be identified.
One neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: "We are all totally horrified."
