crozzy@gmail.com wrote:
> On Dec 4, 6:46 pm, Gregory  wrote:
> 
>>Ex-police boss arrested in indecency probe
>>Tuesday, December 04, 2007
>>
>>A Labour Party councillor has been arrested in Belfast on suspicion of
>>gross indecency and other offences.
>>
>>Steven Bayes, a city councillor in Hull, was detained yesterday at a
>>hotel room in the city centre.
>>
>>The 45-year-old, who is also a former chairman of the Humberside Police
>>Authority, had apparently been under surveillance.
>>
>>Details of his alleged offences have not been disclosed.
> 
> 
> But you can guess!
> Definition of gross indecency
> 
> See Section 13 Sexual Offences Act 1956 (Archbold, 20-133).
> 
> The offence of rape was restated in Section 142 of the Criminal
> Justice & Public Order Act 1994 to include anal sexual intercourse
> with another man without consent. Where anal intercourse takes place
> without consent, you should charge rape contrary to Section 1 of the
> Sexual Offences Act 1956 and not buggery contrary to Section 12 of
> that Act <refer to Sexual Offences - Rape, elsewhere in this guidance>.



It has to be pointed out, Mr. Bayes has not been charged and it is 
premature to attach specific definitions to events which may be up in 
the air, or indeed, which turns out not to be a case.

I think the only public statements relating to Steven Bayes have been 
issued by a Health Trust and a Labour MP who has suspended him from a 
research position, the regional Labour Party claimed in the Yorkshire 
media they were unable to get in touch with him.

I would have to say that his political career is probably not looking 
too good at the moment. It is almost unheard of for the Labour Party to 
issue such a statement.

If a Liberal Democrat had been arrested in a hotel room for gross 
indecency, the Lib Dems would already be arranging for their candidate 
to be given a medal and a year's free 'barely legal' pornography.

G.