Flat at Tory donor’s block stank of sex

A flat at the Chelsea Cloisters luxury apartment block was used by so many prostitutes that the smell of sex lingered in the rooms, a court heard.

One punter had even left his hand print on the paintwork where he had sex with a prostitute up against a wall.

Ivett Szuda, 32, and Karl Ring, 34, allegedly enjoyed fabulous lifestyles on the cash they made from their sex workers.

Mother-of-two Szuda was the point of contact for Hungarian women who answered online adverts offering work for prostitutes.

Jurors heard Szuda and Ring paid more than £100,000 in rent for apartments for the girls to use in Chelsea – including a flat at 574 Chelsea Cloisters.

Than ran a website called Kensington Angels advertising more than 100 prostitutes, Isleworth Crown Court heard.

The women were told they could make up to £300 a day and would split half their earnings with the couple, the court heard.

Giving evidence a Hungarian woman, 25, told how she moved to London in 2015 to work as a prostitute.

She initially worked in Swiss Cottage but was not making enough money so her boyfriend found another opportunity in London on the website Redlife.

She said: ‘I saw another place on the internet, Chelsea Cloisters.’

‘It did not advertise itself openly as Chelsea Cloisters.’

She said she used a messaging box on the Redlife website to send an email to ‘Eva’, who she named in court as Ivett Szuda.

The prostitute added: ‘She told me she would escort me to where I was to go’

She met Szuda outside Chelsea Cloisters and they knew each other by the clothes they were wearing.

She said: ‘It is apartments but it is not a hotel.

‘Basically, there is a stairs, on the left side the reception and on the right said you can just chill.’

She was asked by Ian McLoughlin prosecuting if they interacted with the staff.

She told the jury: ‘They just said hi hi, actually they know there is girls working there.

‘Then we go up to the 5th floor.’

The flat number was given to the court as 574.

She told the court that Szuda took pictures of her and took her passport.

The woman said: ‘She asked me to change, she took sexy photos of me and then she took my passport.

‘She told me she needed it for the advertising.

‘She told me she needed to have a photo of me with my passport.’

The woman added :’You can smell the smells you can actually smell a lot of people had sex.

‘It was dirty.

‘I did not even want lean against the wall and there was a palm mark against the wall and this indicated that they were having sex and he had put his sweaty hand against the wall.’

She told the court that she was given the biggest room and that Szuda told her that the room nearest the bathroom was usually reserved for English girls.

She said: ‘I paid either a 50-50 split or 60-40 I don’t remember.’

The woman explained that for £10 pounds a day the adultwork website would put her higher up its listings.

She said: ‘Once she took the picture then I started to work.

‘We can say almost immediately.

‘Sooner than four days.

‘I usually worked 10 to 11 hours from 11 in the morning to 10 at evening.’

The prosecutor asked her how many clients she saw per day.

She said: ‘Sometimes 8/9 sometimes 4.’

She told the court that the services she offered were not her decision and that Szuda had a list.

She said: ‘It was not my decision she just told me how things are.’

Szuda and Ring were arrested on 27 June this year at their £740,000 home in Elthorne Avenue, Hanwell, west London.

Police officers found £20,000 in cash at the address, jurors heard.

The couple deny 12 counts of controlling prostitution for gain, four counts of trafficking for sexual exploitation and one count of possessing criminal property.

Szuda alone denies three counts of arranging or facilitating travel with the view to exploitation.

The charges date from between January 1, 2011 and June 27 this year.

Referring to revelations over the weekend about prostitutes allegedly working from Chelsea Cloisters yesterday Judge Robin Johnson told jurors: ‘I am told there has been some media coverage over the weekend as to Chelsea Cloisters.

‘The story focused on a man who was a donor to a major party.

‘You should ignore it so far as your decision making is concerned.

‘You should make your decision making on what you hear in the court.’

The trial continues.
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