Re: Yet another Sydney derailment

["Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@nospam.bhp.com.au>]

"Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> Geoff Lambert wrote in message <389b5de5.101346076@nntp.unsw.edu.au>...
>
> >The offender was Frank Hardy for his book "Power without Glory", but
> >it was 50 years ago.  The offence was to imply that Nellie Wren was an
> >aldultress, via Hardy's depiction of "Nellie West"  Hardy was
> >acquitted. That was then the first-ever prosecution in Australia and I
> >think, still the only.  There may have been a recent case elsewhere-
> >or perhaps I'm thinking of Oscar Wilde, another well-known offender-
> >he was convicted and went to Brixton.
>
> Oscar Wilde went to prison for having gay sex.
>
> Dave
>
Maybe he was convicted of libel and went to prison to have gay sex.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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