![]() ![]() The book contained such explicit scenes - a gang rape, a homosexual orgy - that the England Test cricketer David Sheppard, who was later to become the Bishop of Liverpool, admitted in court that the book had depraved and corrupted him, because it had inflamed old homosexual lusts with which he had struggled as a young man. This book described in graphic detail the brutal, degraded lives of teenage prostitutes, homosexual rent boys, transvestites, rapists, drug addicts and the like in the slums of Fifties New York. Mortimer’s part in this corruption of our values began in 1968, when he successfully defended in court a revoltingly sleazy American novel, Last Exit To Brooklyn. ![]() Three people told me about it in just one day, among them two of his ex-mistresses. Of course he knew: it was common knowledge for decades in the theatre world. ![]() Actress Wendy Craig had an affair with John Mortimer over 40 years ago and they had a child called Ross, pictured right, now 42. ![]()
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