He enlisted the support of local police throughout England to step up the number of arrests for homosexual offences.

After he had been found guilty of homosexual offences and sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour, the press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack.

It was also learned that vom Rath's brother Gustav had served a prison sentence for homosexual offences.

However, in June 1935 he was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for 'homosexual offences with youths'.

He replaced Edward de Cobain who had been expelled from the House of Commons and was later jailed for homosexual offences.

As a judge at the Old Bailey in the 1920s he acquired a reputation for dealing sysmpathetically with men charged with consensual homosexual offences.

Is the hon. Gentleman in favour of reducing the age of consent in homosexual offences to 16?

Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.

During the early 50's as many as 1,000 men were locked up in Britain's prisons every year amid a widespread police clampdown on homosexual offences.

They also repeatedly wrote and visited the police and the Director of Public Prosecutions, trying to ensure Ross' arrest for homosexual offences.