James Humphreys (pornographer)
James William Humphreys (7 January 1930 – September 2003) was an English businessman and criminal who owned a chain of adult book shops and strip clubs in London in the 1960s and 1970s. He was able to run his business through the payment of large bribes to serving police officers, particularly those from the Obscene Publications Branch#History, Obscene Publications Branch (OPB) of the Metropolitan Police. His diaries—which detailed meetings he had held with police officers, the venues of the meetings and the amounts of bribes paid—provided evidence for the investigation by anti-corruption officers of the Metropolitan Police. Humphreys became involved in petty crime early in life, and was first arrested at the age of 15. The severity of his crimes increased over time and, in March 1958, he was sentenced to six years' imprisonment after using explosives to open a safe and steal £8,260 in money and postal orders. On his release he opened a strip club in Soho, the centre of L ...
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James Humphreys (pornographer), 1972
James Humphreys may refer to: * James Humphreys (printer) (1748–1810), American-born publisher & politician * James Humphreys (lawyer) (c. 1768–1830), British lawyer, writer and law reformer * James Humphreys (pornographer) (1930–2003), British operator of adult book shops and strip clubs * James E. Humphreys (1939–2020), American mathematician * James Humphreys (author) (born 1967), British political strategist and fiction writer * Jimmy Humphreys (1894–1956), Irish hurler See also

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