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Back to court for Newbury father in brothel case





Gerald Gillett’s latest offence involving prostitution was committed just weeks after a judge took pity on him because of his young son.
After hearing of the 48-year-old’s offending history, magistrates decided that their powers of punishment were insufficient.
Instead they told Mr Gillett, of Oddfellows Road, Newbury, that they were sending him back to the judge for sentencing.
Last August, Reading Crown Court was told how Gerald Gillett had 10 ‘working’ women on his books at his two-bedroom house.
On that occasion he admitted controlling prostitution for gain between December 2011 and November 2012.
Trudi Yeatman, defending, said her client did it for the money having fallen on hard times.
But Judge Nicholas Wood told him at the time: “You have made a substantial amount of money out of this,” and sentenced him to six months’ imprisonment.
However, he took pity on him after hearing how he was bringing up his young son on his own following the death of the boy’s mother.
Suspending the sentence for 18 months, Judge Wood explained: “I will (do so) simply in the interests of your son. He has already lost his mum, I don’t want him to lose his dad, even for a short period – it’s a difficult age.”
Mr Gillett was also ordered to undertake 100 hours’ unpaid community work.
But at the latest hearing, Mr Gillett admitted the new offence of allowing his premises to be used for prostitution on October 10 last year.
Mike Davis, defending, said: “This offence happened just two months later and puts him in breach of the suspended sentence order. In light of this, I’m not sure it helps to hear details of this latest offence today.”
After conferring with colleagues, presiding magistrate Sue Campbell agreed and ruled: “The matter needs to go back to the judge at Reading Crown Court in order for him to decide whether or not to activate the suspended sentence he imposed.”
After ordering pre-sentence reports to be prepared, magistrates bailed Mr Gillett until April 22.



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