Episode Description
This is The Drag – a handful of streets in Glasgow city centre which made up the red-light district in the 1990s and early 2000s. We make a visit with an experienced local crime reporter asking what life would have been like for the women who stood there on cold, dark nights all those years ago? Waiting to be picked up by one of the circling drivers, not knowing how the encounter might end. Heroin culture was still ravaging the city – pushing some women involved in prostitution into perilous liaisons to feed their habit. We hear from a charity worker who gave her time and care to many of these women, facing down threats of violence to protect them from predators. She tells us of the fear and pain this nighttime community went through as more and more women involved in prostitution were murdered. Eight women killed in less than 15 years. We want to visit The Drag in person to see what it’s like now and find out what are police doing to crack down on on-street prostitution? We join officers on patrol, who lift