The daughter of two respected solicitors and a Scotland Yard detective who are accused of running an upmarket vice ring appeared in court today. Beatrice Nokes, 21, faces claims she incited a ring of prostitutes operating out of properties in Central London. The University College London chemistry student is suspected of grooming three young women to sell their bodies for sex. Beatrice Nokes, 21, pictured left and right outside court today, faces claims she incited a ring of prostitutes operating out of properties in Central London. She is accused of running the vice ring with Daniel Williams . She is accused of running the vice ring in the capital last year with 37-year-old Met police officer Daniel Williams. He faces several further offences including voyeurism and hiding the profits of their activities in socks stuffed up the chimney of his home. He is accused of committing the crimes while on and off-duty. Nokes, a keen horsewoman, artist and charity fundraiser, is the daughter of two highly experienced legal professionals. Her father, Jonathan Nokes, 66, is a partner at respected law firm Anthony Gold where he specialises in commercial property law. Her mother, Ceinwen Rowles, 59, specialises in education law, discrimination and complaints and is taking a case to the European Court of Human Rights. The detective constable, who is suspended from duty, was based at Tooting police station in Wandsworth, South West London, pictured. He is accused of committing the crimes while on and off-duty . They both accompanied her to Westminster Magistrates’ Court when she went before a judge for the first time last month. Today, Nokes appeared at Southwark Crown Court her name. Williams was also present. The both face three charges of ‘causing or inciting’ prostitution ‘in the expectation of gain’ in September and October last year. Williams faces seven further charges including controlling prostitution for gain in the 10 months up until his arrest by anti-corruption colleagues on October 8. The detective constable, who is suspended from duty, was based at Tooting police station in Wandsworth, South West London. Several weeks after he was first arrested Williams was also accused of  spying on unsuspecting women hotel guests at at the Jury’s Inn in Milton Keynes (left) and The Mandolay Hotel, Guildford, Surrey (right) He is accused of two counts of misconduct in a public office, firstly by running the prostitution ring and secondly by using police computers to check clients. A further charge alleges he concealed a ‘large quantity of cash’ by stuffing it in socks and hiding it in the chimney of his Putney home. Several weeks after he was first arrested Williams was also accused of using hi-tech hidden equipment to spy on unsuspecting women hotel guests. He is said to have watched the victims at the Jury’s Inn in Milton Keynes and The Mandolay Hotel, Guildford, Surrey, between January and October last year. Williams, of Putney, south west London, and Nokes, of Islington, north London, are both on bail and will return to Southwark Crown Court on 15 May to enter their pleas. The trial which is fixed for 12 September next year is expected to last between four and six weeks. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.
Beatrice Nokes allegedly ran a prostitute ring in Central London last year . She is suspected of grooming three women to sell their bodies for sex . Nokes is the daughter of two highly experienced legal professionals . She allegedly organised the sex ring with Met police officer Daniel Williams . He also faces charges of voyeurism and concealing profits in his chimney .