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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Noah Vickers

'Prostitute's cautions leaves sex workers stigmatized for the rest of their lives'

Prostitute's cautions are a 'discriminatory' form of police reprimand, Sadiq Khan has been told by the London Assembly - (PA)

Sadiq Khan should work with the Metropolitan Police to get rid of ‘prostitute’s cautions’, the London Assembly has argued, because the law currently leaves sex workers “stigmatised for the rest of their lives”.

In a formal motion, which received unanimous, cross-party support from the Assembly, the mayor has been asked to look at the “out of date, discriminatory” reprimand, which can affect a former prostitute’s future job prospects.

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