Five-year vice ban for prostitute

A prostitute has been stopped from plying her trade in Wolverhampton for the next five years after being given a criminal anti-social behaviour order.

Police welcomed the move, revealing the period of the order is twice is long as those normally handed out.

Amy Colley, of Upton Street, Netherton, Dudley, who has been a vice girl for five years, was given the Crasbo for loitering in the All Saints district of the city.

District Judge Graham Wilkinson reckoned citizens needed to be protected from activities associated with the sex trade.

Police applied to Wolverhampton Magistrates for the order, because of Lilley's long criminal record as a prostitute.

The 29-year-old did not attend yesterday's hearing, which also banned her from working as a prostitute anywhere in England and Wales for five years.

After the case neighbourhood police officer Martin Heard added the order was a victory for Operation Wax-Berry, a crackdown on the vice trade in All Saints and Ettingshall, where residents say they cannot sleep at night because of the noise of vehicles attracted by prostitutes working in the area.