Nationalist Party leadership contender Adrian Delia is caught out in yet another lie

Nationalist Party leadership contender Adrian Delia is trying to counteract my “lies” on Facebook – which is apparently the place where all non-serious Maltese politicians go when accused of laundering money for a prostitution racket, because unlike a press conference, there you don’t have to answer questions – even though the use of the medium is cheap and tacky and does nothing for one’s image and gravitas.

Here is the second one. The first will follow. He says that I am lying about his clients (running a prostitution racket), because when his clients found out that their premises were being used for prostitution by the “tenants”, they asked him to instruct lawyers in the UK to evict them.

Total bollocks, if you will excuse a reference to testicles that is entirely appropriate in this particular context. Over the past seven years or so I have spent frequent and lengthy amounts of time in Soho and still prefer to stay there whenever I go to London. I know the neighbourhood extremely well, every nook and cranny of it, and usually have breakfast every morning at a café on Greek Street. No. 52 has never been used for anything but prostitution in all that time.

It has been used from prostitution from the early 1970s at least, going by accounts of people in the know. But I myself can vouch for the fact, as a regular eyewitness, that it has been a walk-down – it’s a basement flat and the door to the walk-ups is just round the corner at 1 Bateman Street – for the last seven years. In fact, when my source gave me the address – 52 Greek – I immediately said, “Oh, I know the one. I know exactly where you mean.”

It sticks out like a sore thumb in a neighbourhood that is now mainly regenerated. The photographs I published, one of which is below, were taken a few days ago by a friend who happened to be in Soho when I got the story, and who I rang and asked to take the pictures without saying why.

These pictures of the Soho walk-ups/walk-down at 52 Greek Street and 1 Bateman Street were taken just a few days ago at my request.