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BBC1 Inside Out: The Merseyside Hate Crime Model of Policing Prostitution – Monday 21 Oct, 7.30pm

October 19, 2013 // 12 Comments

The Merseyside hate crime model of policing prostitution leads the country. In these two documentaries for Inside Out, airing on BBC1 in the London and North West regions, writer Ruth Jacobs investigates why crimes against sex trade workers are going unpunished, clearly showing the urgency for the Merseyside model to be made UK wide to prevent more rapes and save lives, taking more rapists and murderers off the streets.

Free to download on Kindle today only – Soul Destruction: Unforgivable (a story of drug addiction and prostitution)

August 10, 2013 // 1 Comment

In the spring of 1997, Shelley Hansard, a call girl who tries to live by the Golden Rule, finds herself in a suite at The Lanesborough Hotel with a dead client. Her fear of becoming a murder suspect pushes her deeper into addiction. Heroin costs her more than money and crack induces psychosis – seeing and hearing people others can’t. As an intravenous user, her desirability as a top London call girl is waning and the skills required to keep up her multiple personas are weakening. Among her few friends and what remains of her broken family, she...

Last Two Days of Free ‘Soul Destruction: Unforgivable’ Download on Amazon

May 26, 2013 // 5 Comments

Soul Destruction: Unforgivable exposes the harsh reality of life for many women in prostitution - the psychological and emotional effects, the isolation, addiction, despair and abuse. In the media prostitution at the level of being a call girl has been glamorized. This book shows what often lies behind the glamour...

Soul Destruction: Unforgivable is Free to Download on Kindle from 24 – 27 May

May 24, 2013 // 2 Comments

Enter the bleak existence of a call girl haunted by the atrocities of her childhood. In the spring of 1997, Shelley Hansard is a drug addict with a heroin habit and crack psychosis. Her desirability as a top London call girl is waning. When her client dies in a suite at The Lanesborough Hotel, Shelley’s complex double-life is blasted deeper into chaos. In her psychotic state, the skills required to keep...

For a Limited Time ‘Soul Destruction: Unforgivable’ is 77p / 99c on Kindle

May 14, 2013 // 0 Comments

For a limited time only: Click here to download from Amazon UK for 77p. Click here to download from Amazon US for 99c. If you don’t have a Kindle, you can download

From the Madness and Hell of Life as a Heroin and Crack Addict with Countless Failed Overdoses, This is My Story on Getting My Life Back on Track

May 8, 2013 // 8 Comments

Published in Tough Talk Magazine – May 2013 My interview in the second edition of Robin Barratt‘s Tough Talk Magazine is the most personal interview I have ever

Released Today – Soul Destruction: Unforgivable

April 29, 2013 // 2 Comments

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In the Booth with Ruth – Jackie Summerford, Mother of Bonnie Barratt Murdered at 24 Years Old in the Sex Trade

April 5, 2013 // 8 Comments

Bonnie’s killer was a regular to all of them. He’d been rough with some of them and they’d stopped going to his flat. If there was the Merseyside model, he might have been reported to the police before. In May 2007, one of the girls was in his flat and from when she got in, she knew something was wrong with him; she didn’t feel right. She waited for him to go to the bathroom and she shot out of the street door. She never went back after...

In the Booth with Ruth – Andrew Boff, Conservative Member of the London Assembly

April 4, 2013 // 6 Comments

Some sex workers in London feel that when they report crimes, police focus on their crimes related to sex work – such as having a ‘brothel’ - over the crimes they originally reported against them. I have seen several cases like this in London. As a result of this belief in the sex industry, sex workers have told me they feel that they cannot safely report crime to the police...