John Cleese 'I'm paying her £900,000 a year. And we had no children. It really is astonishing.'

A painter and decorator who lit a cigarette in his own van while on an errand for his wife has been handed a £30 on-the spot fine - for smoking in his "workplace".

Husbands who kill wives can no longer claim they were provoked.

Pre-meditated murder by women is OK.

Family man Gary Crutchley only wanted to take a picture of his children enjoying a day out.

But his innocent snaps of his sons on a slide ended with him being branded on the spot as a 'pervert'.

Nine years ago, Sweden took the step of punishing the men who buy sex rather than the women who sell it. There, it is legal to be a prostitute. But the man who pays for her service is committing an offence.

The debate comes as the Government here is drawing up proposals for law reform that could de-criminalise prostitutes who would, instead, be offered help to get out of the vice trade or given anti-social behaviour orders, in favour of a crackdown on men who trawl for sex.