12 February 1987: Summing up,Judge Pryor warned that the case was a criminal trial, not a form of entertainmentJail term nick for madame Cynthia Payne, or 16 May 1980The severe still of an English court was sorely tried by the “Madame Cyn” case. But the law proved as unshakable in its stays as the nobly-constrained form of Mrs Cynthia Payne herself.
The Inner London Crown Court,where Mrs Payne was cleared yesterday of controlling prostitutes, took it all: accounts of Mrs Payne’s style of home entertaining in Ambleside Avenue, and Streatham,and the tumultuous scenes when a police raid brought the party to an end - a much final fling of bedroom doors, revealing prodigies of corsetry and of sexual energy among the elderly infirm.
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Source: theguardian.com