A brothel madam and people trafficker made almost £1.2 million from two massage parlors in Northampton where Thai prostitutes were kept in semi-slavery, a court heard.
Angela Miller, (right) aged 51, faces having all of her money, savings and properties in Thailand being confiscated and up to 10 more years in prison under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
She was convicted of controlling prostitutes and their earnings in September 2000 but jumped bail and fled to Thailand before she could be sentenced.
Having been on the run for six years, she was extradited back to the UK in October 2006 to start more than four years imprisonment imposed in her absence.
She appeared at Northampton Crown Court yesterday for a confiscation hearing, almost a decade since her arrest for running two brothels passing as massage parlours in Northampton.
Police raided the brothels in Kingsley Park Terrace, run by Miller and her ex-husband Ron, revealing that 18 Thai women had been trafficked into the UK for prostitution.
She is said to have hidden away up to £700,000 cash which she had taken from the prostitutes as well as amassing a number of property investments in her homeland. As well as owning a house in Cavendish Drive in Northampton, Miller also owned a penthouse in the beach resort of Pattaya, four plots of land and four shops in Kanchanaburi, savings in two bank accounts as well as the Far East Rock bar in Pattaya which was also run as a brothel.
Miller claims to have no money and has previously blamed her ex-husband Ron for taking all of the money they made through the Siam Sauna and Thai House brothels. [via Northampton Chronicle]
Sierra Tangos
- Shooters Soi Diamond party for Goldeneye, 8.30pm Friday, Jan 11
- Wet n' Wild Go Go Centre Condo Pattaya Tai, Dance Competition, 8.30pm Friday, Jan 11
- Mr. Sifu McInnes, from the South East Asia School of Martial Arts announced that in cooperation between his school and the World Kumite Organization, the 2008 World Kumite Championships will be held here in Pattaya between 3rd and 5th May at the Ambassador City Hotel in Jomtien. Kumite is a full contact, knock down Martial Art which uses bare fists with no protective gear allowed. [via Pattaya City News]
- Werewolf's Favourite Go-Go's In Bangkok [via Nana Journals]:
- Rawhide because of the shows and perfect showgirls
- Mandarin Club because of the small girls and fun factor upstairs
- Shark for the number and quality of beautiful dancers with a good attitude
- Rainbow 4 for the sheer volume of beautiful girls
- Safari for it’s unusual style and 70’s era music
- Electric Blue for being an all around good go go bar
- Five Star for the live band
- Angelwitch for it’s combo of shows, pretty girls and black leather outfits
- Mandarin Table Dance because they bring attractive and sexy girls right up close.
- Move large PC files lightning fast with TeraCopy - drive to drive or PC to USB Stick.
When I bought a new computer a few months back, I split up the 500 GB hard-drive into three partitions - one part for all programs and Windows files and two other drives for other files. But what I neglected to realise was that if I wanted to move a large file from one drive to another, it was going to take a while. Windows Explorer tends to get a little wheezy and asthmatic when it comes to shifting / copying large files from drive to drive.
So finally I did what I always do when I am faced with a PC dilemma and I went Googling for solutions. I was looking for a freeware program which would move files rapidly from one Windows drive to another and which would also make Windows Explorer pale in comparison. I finally found a great program called TeraCopy.
TeraCopy is a program which integrates into your right-click Explorer menu. Transfers really are lightning fast and the program is free for home users.
After installing, if you need to move a large file from say drive J to drive K on your computer then you just right-click on the file in question and choose TeraCopy.
This opens up the TeraCopy interface with the file in question already in the queue waiting to go.
Choose “copy to” or “move to”, choose the file destination on your PC (in this case, drive K) and then TeraCopy will start to transfer the file to where you want it to go.
TeraCopy has some two other great features which makes this a must-have on your computer :
1. If you are moving / copying a lot of files, you can pause the file transfers if you have a more urgent task for your PC and you need to free up some extra CPU. Once you’re done, you can resume the file transfers again. You can’t do that with Windows Explorer!
2. If there is a problem with one of the files, TeraCopy just skips it and moves onto the next file. Windows Explorer would just terminate the entire transfer process! If any files failed to be moved or copied, TeraCopy tells you which ones so you can identify the problem and try again.
TeraCopy isn’t just for moving files from drive to drive. It is also good if you are moving a lot of files back and forth from your PC to a removable data device such as a USB stick. I tried TeraCopy on my USB stick and I was able to copy the entire contents of my Portable Apps folder in 2 minutes. Using Windows Explorer, it took up to 30 minutes! [via MakeUseOf]
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The second part of NewsGator's announcement is the most exciting - all these products are available for free! Yes, you read that correctly - start downloading now. [via DownLoadSquad]
- Prague Brothel Offers Free Sex In Exchange For Being Filmed For Web - If you want to watch Nick having sex with a prostitute, he's happy to let you. The 36-year-old bank-security technician drove eight hours from his home in Metz, France, to Big Sister, a Prague brothel where customers peruse a touch-screen menu of blondes, brunettes and redheads available for free. The catch is clients have to let their exploits be filmed and posted on the Internet.
"Sex is no taboo,'' Nick says, though he asked that his last name not be used. "You have to free your mind.''
Big Sister is marrying 21st-century technology with the world's oldest profession to profit from the public's appetite for ever-more graphic reality TV. Since 2005, more than 15,000 men have taken up the offer of free sex in return for 15 minutes, or less, of fame, according to the brothel. Big Sister is now expanding into the U.S. with a local version of its Web site. [via HuffPo]
Ed. I know more than a few that would go for this in Pattaya. That said, I know more than a few husband's that wouldn't....
- You can never have too much Iga
- Leo McKinstry has an excellent piece in the Daily Telegraph on the subject of 'sledging', the name given to the verbal intimidation of opponents in cricket.
The best way to respond to sledging is a dose of the same, as the Zimbabwean tail-end batsman Eddo Brandes once found when facing the great Aussie pace bowler Glenn McGrath (right). Frustrated that Brandes had somehow managed to keep his wicket intact, McGrath walked up to him and asked: "Hey, how come you're so fat?" Brandes instantly replied: "Because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit." [via Neil Clark]
- A man from Liverpool walks into the local Job Centre, marches straight up to the counter and says "Hi. You know, I just HATE drawing benefits, I'd really much rather have a job."
The social worker behind the counter says "Your timing is excellent. We've just taken a vacancy from a very wealthy old man who wants a chauffeur and bodyguard for his beautiful nymphomaniac daughter. You'll have to drive around in his Mercedes, but he'll supply all of your clothes. Because of the long working hours, meals will be provided. You'll be expected to escort her on her overseas holiday trips and will have to satisfy her sexual urges. You'll be provided with a two-bedroom apartment above the garage, and the starting salary is £200,000 a year."
The guy, wide-eyed, says "You're bullshiting me?"
The social worker says "Yeah, well you started it."
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