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Originally Posted by SilverSurfer Please read below in BOLD
On 3 February 1984, Grant was imprisoned for distributing ‘video nasty’ Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (1981) on video. Grant was sentenced to 18 months in prison (later reduced to 12 months) for being in "possession of over 200 copies of an obscene article for publication for gain", he was found guilty under section two of the obscene publications act. Grant’s defense lawyer during the trial was Geoffrey Robertson. After Grant’s imprisonment, World of Video 2000 (and its parent company April Electronics) were placed into liquidation. |
The irony of this is, the Video Recordings act (1984) was never signed by the European Commission, therefore, could never be legally enforced. So anyone fined or imprisoned for distributing a "Video Nasty" should never have been in the first place.