Maria White has to raise her voice to be heard above the constant hum of traffic and car horns on Stockport Road in Levenshulme.
21.05.2024 - 09:51 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A dad pocketed substantial sums of money and led a double life running 'an escort agency' called Pure Innocence, a court heard.
Ian Cullen has now been caught operating as a pimp for the second time, having had as many as nine women under his control as part of the illegal business. The operation saw a pregnant woman whom he had employed as a sex worker left "extremely anxious and distressed" at a hotel in Liverpool city centre, having also instructed her to pay visits to truckers on laybys off main roads.
Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday (Monday) that police were called to the Ibis hotel on Dale Street at around 8.45am on September 14 2021 and found an expectant woman in an "extremely anxious and distressed state". She went on to tell the officers that she had worked for an escort agency called Pure Innocence and that Cullen, of Anglesea Road in Walton, had been her boss.
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Philip Astbury, prosecuting, described how she had been a sex worker prior to meeting the 45-year-old as a client before she asked to work for him, with her first job coming at the Malmaison hotel in 2017. She then resumed working for Cullen again during the spring of 2021, charging rates of £150 per hour - £80 of which he would keep, the Liverpool Echo reports.
However, she was often not paid the remaining £70 she had been due as he claimed that she owed him debts relating to her earlier period working for him and "would simply add to the debt". The woman, who was "addicted to class A drugs", estimated that Cullen had around nine women working for him in total.
He would require them to purchase condoms from him at a fee of five for £1, while she was given a
Maria White has to raise her voice to be heard above the constant hum of traffic and car horns on Stockport Road in Levenshulme.
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