Kirklees based sexual health charity under fire for promoting gay sex site

Sep 22 2009 By Nick Lavigueur

An anonymous source told the Examiner lay-bys on Litherop Lane were constantly busy with parked cars, usually with lone men at the wheel.

The contact said there was a constant flow of traffic on the isolated rural lane and men would meet up with other men before and after work and then again late at night.

They also said the lane was listed as a good spot to meet via a link to a Brunswick’s website to another website called ‘Squirt’.

Litherop Lane has long suffered problems with ‘dogging’ and people hunting for sex.

Five years ago a public picnic spot on the lane was closed by the council after it became a popular sex site.

While Kirklees Council had the power to shut that site it is thought that police are powerless to deal with the current problem as they are not allowed to pursue men into woodlands off the lane because it is private property.

Nick Lavigueur visited Litherop Lane:

DRIVING down rural Litherop Lane, it’s pretty clear something’s going on.

I drove down the lane, just off the A631 Wakefield Road, around lunchtime yesterday and saw several cars parked in lay-bys with lone men at the wheel.

No sooner had I parked up to take a picture of the woodlands, than another male driver arrived and parked his car behind mine.

I sat there for a minute before the man, slowly drove off, giving me the once over as he left.

Two other cars with male drivers remained parked opposite each other the entire 10 minutes I was there but neither man left his vehicle.

A couple of other vehicles swiftly arrived and left, perhaps not seeing anything they liked.