由此 - 8 A A prostitute any more. In the meantime, the applicant told the girl that he had taken over the debt of her boy friend and she had to repay him. In addition during this period the girl occasionally borrowed money from the applicant. All these loans accumulated to over $100,000 by March 1998. The girl discussed repayment with the applicant. The applicant agreed to the girl repaying these loans by monthly instalments and he also discounted the total owed to him by her to $900,000. B C D E 3. The applicant had previous convictions of gambling, managing a vice establishment and living on earnings of prostitution. F B C D E F … G 8. In our view, 18 months in the circumstances of the present case may be on the high side but is not manifestly excessive or wrong in principle.” H I J 13. As we understand the position in this application, there was no evidence of any form of control whatsoever by the applicant or any of G H I J the persons employed by him. In this sense, it was apparently a K L straightforward commercial operation with no threatening or other sinister undertones attached to it. The applicant merely offered an advertising K L facility to the prostitutes who, if they chose to do so, could take up the M N offer. There is no suggestion at all that the prostitutes were told that there would be any physical or personal consequences if they did not advertise M N on the website, that they would be harassed or in any way compromised. O P The fact that they were photographed with the intention that their appearance, as well as the details of the services offered by them, would be O P available to anyone minded to visit the website and that they were prepared Q R to pay a modest fee for the advertising suggests to us that they were willing participants. R S 14. T Q The judge failed to give sufficient weight to this particularly significant factor. S T U U V V