ON THE STREETS: Leanne Goldsmith, 21, was approached by an Evening Advertiser reporter after being seen loitering in the Beatrice Street area at about 10pm Saturday.
While admitting that she had been a former prostitute, she denied that was why she was in Beatrice Street.
She said: "I'm just here waiting for a friend. I am fed up with the police just picking on me. It seems that I am always the one they keep trying to put orders on.
"If they think that banning prostitutes from one area is going to make a difference, they are wrong. You are not going to stop it by moving people on. I get people giving me all sorts of hassle and it is not fair. I wish they would just leave me alone, I don't need it."
Leanne admitted that she had suffered from a drug problem in the past and that she had turned to prostitution to fuel her habit.
In May, the Evening Advertiser revealed that more prostitutes had been banned from the Manchester Road and Broad Street area, and Swindon County Court heard that, after the council was granted an injunction on January 3, two working girls were jailed for breaching a ban ordering them to stay out of a large part of central Swindon between 6pm and 6am.
One of these was Leanne, of Raleigh Avenue, who was jailed for 28 days after 10 breaches.
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