You may remember the eccentric couple who featured on Channel 4s Grand Designs building their dream property overlooking the Embalsement de la Pedrera. Those of you who saw the progam will remember that they struggled with their builders to get the house they wanted. Even the presenter, Kevin McCloud said they were barking mad.
Well Apparently Jenny, the wife has embarked upon a one woman crusade against the prositutes on the CV95. Our visitors will recall seeing them on the junction where we turn to Los Montesinos. They apparently started appearing around a year ago. We thought at first they were just waiting for lifts. The ‘ladies of the night’ soon became ‘ladies of the day’ and as summer approached more girls arrived starting work first thing in the morning. Parading along the roadside in their bikinis Jenny would regularly sound her car horn to try and embarrass the punters but the final straw came one day when her 16 year-old daughter saw a man being “serviced” in his car. “I just saw red and thought that is it, I’ve had enough, everyone is fed up with it but no one is prepared to do anything but I am. I’m not putting up with it anymore.”
Jenny decided to rid her area of the prostitutes. She went along first thing in the morning and when punters turned up made it impossible for them to be picked up by shadowing the girls. Police turned up one day and Jenny explained to them what she was doing and one said the only thing she could do was to take the car number plates of people stopping.
Throughout her daily patrols she engaged with the men that were stopping, explaining that she was taking their license plate number and there is an air of disgust in her voice as she recalls one Englishman begging her not to hand his details over to the police. “Another man said he had just stopped to pick some lemons! Jenny spoke to the girls as well, she knows where they live but they really can’t see what her problem is. To them it is an age old profession and the most natural thing to do. Jenny says she has no problem with prostitution per se, its when it’s on her doorstep and her kids see men being serviced.”
Jenny has even resorted to throwing eggs at the girls, doing anything possible to make them move on and it appears that her gutsy determination may have paid off as the sidewalks and corners are blissfully quiet. “They realised I meant business, they gradually moved along and one regular woman, whenever I approached would put her head in her hand and say ‘no more, no more.’ It has taken a lot of time to do this and I have better things to do than chase them with eggs but it couldn’t be adhoc, I had to do it and I’ve only seen one in the last week.”
Whilst Jenny has been praised by other mother’s in the area, she admits most people think she is “barking mad” and as she realises her methods may be a little out of the ordinary, they have achieved the results she wanted. “I wouldn’t wait for the situation to just disappear, it wasn’t going to, but I would suggest to anyone else suffering in the same way to form a committee and work together safely to stop the punters.”
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