THE DOORMAN AT A SOHO SEX CLUB WHERE FOREIGN TOURI

THE DOORMAN AT A SOHO SEX CLUB WHERE FOREIGN TOURISTS WERE
SWINDLED OUT OF THOUSANDS OF POUNDS, LOST HIS APPEAL AGAINST A FRAUD

CONVICTION TODAY (TUE).

SIGNS OUTSIDE THE SLEAZY ARCHER PRIVATE FILM CLUB WHERE DOMINIC
GALEA, 38, WORKED, PROMISED ‘PORNO PICTURES’ AND ‘NAUGHTY DRINKS
SERVED BY TOPLESS ATTRACTIVE FRENCH MAIDS’.

WHEN THEY GOT INSIDE, PUNTERS RE CHARGED TWICE FOR THE
PRIVILEGE OF BEING SERVED NON-ALCOHOLIC DRINKS IN THE DIMLY-LIT
CLUB BY A FULLY-CLOTHED WAITRESS, THE COURT OF APPEAL HEARD.

THERE WERE NO SEX FILMS, AND THE ONLY NAUGHTY THING ABOUT THE
DRINKS WAS THE PRICE: #4 FOR A TONIC WATER AND UP TO #80 FOR A
BOTTLE OF SPARKLING WINE.

‘THE DRINKS, WHICH WERE ALL NON-ALCOHOLIC, WERE SERVED BY A
WAITRESS WHO WAS FULLY CLOTHED’, SAID MR JUSTICE TUDOR-EVANS IN
HIS JUDGMENT.

‘CUSTOMERS WERE CHARGED #5 ADMISSION AT THE ENTRANCE BUT, ONCE

INSIDE, FOUND A SECOND ENTRANCE WHERE THEY WERE CHARGED AN EXTRA #5.

ANYONE WHO COMPLAINED WAS THROWN OUT WITHOUT A REFUND.

‘
THE JUDGE ADDED THAT GALEA HAD BEEN OBSERVED ON NUMEROUS
OCCASIONS TAKING #20 OFF FOREIGN CUSTOMERS AND GIVING THEM #5
CHANGE INSTEAD OF #15.

HE WAS CONVICTED WITH FOUR OTHERS ON THE 6TH JANUARY THIS YEAR

AT SOUTHWARK CROWN COURT OF CONSPIRING TO OBTAIN PROPERTY BY
DECEPTION, AND WAS SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS IMPRISONMENT, SUSPENDED
FOR TWO YEARS.

HE WAS ALSO FINED #2,500.

APPEALING AGAINST THE SIZE OF THE FINE, MR ALAN GREENWOOD,

DEFENDING, SAID HIS CLIENT WAS NOT THE MOTIVATING FORCE IN THE

ENTERPRISE, BUT JUST A DOORMAN AT THE CLUB, COLLECTING MONEY ON

BEHALF OF HIS EMPLOYERS.

DISMISSING THE APPEAL, MR JUSTICE TUDOR-EVANS SAID, ‘WHILE MR

GALEA MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE ‘MOTIVATING FORCE’, HE UNDOUBTEDLY DID

VERY WELL INDEED OUT OF THE ENTERPRISE AND I SEE NO REASON FOR

REDUCING THE FINE’.

ENDS