Inside notorious UK red light district where punters romp in front of fed-up residents – but it’s not the worst problem | The Sun
WITH its decaying walls, litter-strewn pavements and boarded-up windows clad in graffiti, Paradise Street in Bradford couldn’t look further from its namesake.
The lane runs off Sunbridge Road, an area of the West Yorkshire city notorious as a red light zone and hotspot for prostitutes.
According to residents the commercial district – once prowled by serial killers Stephen Griffith, known as the Crossbow Cannibal, and the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe – has deteriorated further in recent years.
Barry Brewerton, 57, who has worked at MS Accident Repair Centre – a garage round the corner from Paradise Street – for 41 years, says he regularly sees sex workers brazenly going about their business at all hours.
He tells The Sun: “A big problem around here is the prostitutes and the kerb crawlers.
“It’s men you wouldn’t expect, like family men. And they don’t care where they are doing it.
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“They will park up along our street and do it in the cars or on derelict overgrown bits of land. And then they leave their used condoms behind.
“We see it all the time. It’s awful.”
For years the area, north west of Bradford city centre, has been in dire need of an injection of cash and renovation.
Once-thriving industries in the commercial district have upped sticks, leaving empty carcasses of buildings behind, now frequented by pigeons, arsonists, drug addicts and sex workers with their clients.
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