JAILED brothel keeper Brian Grove is planning to embarrass police by releasing a sensational saucy video of their alleged antics. On his own sleazy Internet web site, the jailed porn merchant promises the video, which he claims shows a strippagram girl being mauled by officers at Lancashire Police HQ at Hutton, will be available soon. Stills from the sordid video which caught police with their pants down appeared in the News of the World and Mirror newspapers but the web site also gives explicit details of what happened.

The revelations led to the suspension of 10 police officers from 14 different forces - three from Lancashire - and an investigation is under way by the Police Complaints Authority (PCA). The PCA has reached the second stage of inquiries and is expected to make a decision on any disciplinary action soon. Grove, who is serving a three-month jail sentence for running a brothel from a house on Ryelands, makes a string of allegations against the bobbies including claims that his girls were regularly booked by police officers from all over Lancashire and in particular Morecambe.

Despite being behind bars Grove is still courting business for his Lancaster Model Agency and Home Studio through the Internet - which boasts a total of 10,000 hits by surfers so far. He is expected to be released from jail in about four weeks.

The porn merchant also uses the site, which features explicit pictures of young girls, to tout for new models and strippagram gils giving details of rates of pay, terms and conditions. He even tells them how to get to Ryelands from all over the country by car, train or coach!

But on every page he claims that none of his girls are prostitutes.

Punters are given full details about the cost of strip shows as well as details on how to contact him from outside the UK.

Grove, who was also jailed for supplying unclassified videos, even uses the Internet to ask for donations so one his girls, who is in prison, can pursue an appeal at the Court of Appeal.

A police spokesman said: "Allegations on the Internet will form part of the investigation taking place now on the whole affair at the Lancashire Constabulary Headquarters which is being supervised by the Police Complaints Authority."

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