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A fashion-ware businessman who tried to smuggle explicit
pornographic video-tapes into England has walked free from court
with a fine.

Despite telling customs officials that he had nothing to
declare Victor Nash, 48, was stopped and searched when he arrived
at Stansted Airport in February 1992.

Prosecutor Miss Katerine Astaniotis (corect) said that in the
pockets of his raincoat officers found ‘spools’ from 13 obscene
video cassettes which he had purchased in Amsterdam.

One of the Dutch films was entitled ‘Hot Licks’ while another
was called ‘Schoolgirl Holidays.

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After he was arrested Nash said that he had been to Holland
‘on business.

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Judge David Pitman fined him pnds stlg 500 and ordered him to
pay court costs of pnds stlg 250.

Nash, of Frog Hall, Moor Hall Lane, Harlow, Essex, pleaded
guilty to one charge of being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent
importation of obscene video-tapes on February 26 last year.

In addition the judge made an order for the tapes to be
forfeited and destroyed.

The court was told, and the judge accepted, that the obscene
films were not for commercially gain or distribution, but Nash’s
personal edification.

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