They showed great common sense in the face of quite a lot of double-dutch thrown up by prosecution counsel. I would like to thank them. On the eve of Sharon Thomas' sentencing I received the following submission ably questioning the state of the UK's shameful obscenity law. Similar items are easily available to UK citizens from many companies world wide who's adverts appear in British top shelf magazines. It appears that basic human rights of freedom of expression in a democratic society, have been restricted at a time when Home Office direction is that the rights and principles discussed at the European Convention on Human Rights are being established and should apply now, before October 2nd when the principles are due to be applied.
Harm has to be in evidence, and there is absolutely none.
The catalogues were sent only to people who requested them. The rules concerning these items are not sufficiently clear and accessible. Just as the Home Office is considering how far to go in making hardcore legal there seems to be an obscene miscarriage of justice in the offing. A housewife is facing a jail sentence after being found guilty of running the Welsh end of an international porn operation from her garden shed. Sharon Thomas from St Clear's in Carmarthenshire, was told by a judge at Swansea Crown Court to her to put her affairs in order as he intended to send her to prison.