Windmill on Oil Street, Vauxhall, and First Choice, in Canal Street, Bootle, had been “exceedingly well-run”.

Ex-Maghull cricket captain John “Mike” Hagan and his co-accused Deborah Burgess were both jailed for 15 months after they were caught following a police investigation.Undercover officers watched the pair running the brothels which masqueraded as massage parlours.
Jailing them, Judge Robert Warnock said: “Your services concerted illegal activity that preyed upon the sexual desires of men and the denigration of woman for your personal reward.“To suggest a basis of altruism and goodwill is disingenuous.”
Judge Warnock accepted the two brothels, Windmill on Oil Street, Vauxhall, and First Choice, in Canal Street, Bootle, had been “exceedingly well-run”.But he added: “If there are those who seek to legalise prostitution they should use legitimate and public channels and not flout the law or encourage others to do so.”