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As Boulton and Park, two cross-dressers charged with "conspiring and inciting others to commit unnatural offences", awaited trial in 1870-71, the Society for the Suppression of Vice urged newspapers not to document the case.
They were all found guilty, on an indictment containing 18 counts, of "conspiring" to incite two airmen to commit "unnatural offences" and of committing gross indecency with male persons.
Fanny and Stella's six-day trial, which was postponed for a year after their arrest – for "conspiring to incite others to commit unnatural offences" – at the Strand Theatre in 1870, when they appeared in Bow Street magistrates court the next morning still in their evening gowns, was seen as a farce by many.
This is also true of anyone found to even "attempt to commit unnatural offences".
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At Winchester assizes in 1953, Montagu was acquitted of committing an "unnatural" offence with boy scouts at a bathing party.
They have been found guilty of gang rape, unnatural offences, destruction of evidence … and for committing the murder of the helpless victim," Khanna said.
They have been found guilty of gang rape, unnatural offences, destruction of evidence... and for committing the murder of the helpless victim," Judge Yogesh Khanna pronounced.
"They have been found guilty of gang rape, unnatural offences, destruction of evidence.. and for committing the murder of the helpless victim".
The criminal code – largely mirroring many other colonial laws – punishes acts that are deemed "unnatural offences".
On 10 September 2013, the four adult defendants were found guilty of rape, murder, unnatural offences and destruction of evidence.
On 13 March 2014, the Delhi High Court found all the defendants guilty of rape, murder, unnatural offences and destruction of evidence.
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