page_title: Sex, Drugs & Murder: Life in the Red Light Zone
hierarchical_section_title: Sex, Drugs & Murder: Life in the Red Light Zone
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of Holbeck Moor.
context_page_description: Sex, Drugs & Murder: Life in the Red Light Zone is a thirteen-part documentary series broadcast on BBC Three from 2016 to 2017. The series centres around prostitutes working in a tolerance zone in Holbeck, Leeds.
  On 1 October 2014 Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Police enacted a managed zone in the North East of the city's Holbeck district. In recent years the city's main red light area had moved away from its traditional area around Spencer Place in Chapeltown towards Holbeck. The decision was made to contain it in non-residential areas of the district by agreeing not to prosecute sex workers trading within the designated area between the hours of 7pm and 7am. After a years trial the managed zone was made permanent. Two years following this the documentary was made exploring the United Kingdom's first managed red light district.
  The programme focuses around the lives of several sex workers in Holbeck. As well as sex work the programme deals with issues such as drug addiction, domestic violence, family relations and parent-child separation, housing and eviction, shoplifting, imprisonment and the effects of child sexual abuse.
context_section_description: Sex, Drugs & Murder: Life in the Red Light Zone is a thirteen-part documentary series broadcast on BBC Three from 2016 to 2017.  The series centres around prostitutes working in a tolerance zone in Holbeck, Leeds.
  On 1 October 2014 Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Police enacted a managed zone in the North East of the city's Holbeck district.  In recent years the city's main red light area had moved away from its traditional area around Spencer Place in Chapeltown towards Holbeck.  The decision was made to contain it in non-residential areas of the district by agreeing not to prosecute sex workers trading within the designated area between the hours of 7pm and 7am.  After a years trial the managed zone was made permanent.  Two years following this the documentary was made exploring the United Kingdom's first managed red light district.
  The programme focuses around the lives of several sex workers in Holbeck. As well as sex work the programme deals with issues such as drug addiction (in particular heroin), domestic violence, family relations and parent-child separation, housing and eviction, shoplifting, imprisonment and the effects of child sexual abuse.
caption: Holbeck in Leeds is the feature of the documentary
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