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1966年10月,因被指控为苏联作间谍工作而被判42年徒刑的乔治·布莱克在沃姆伍得—司克鲁珀监狱服刑五年后逃走了。二十四年后,帕特·波特尔和迈克尔·兰德尔共同出了一本书——《布莱克之逃——我们是怎样和为什么援助布莱克的》。在这本书中,他们两人承认自己在布莱克之逃中扮演的角色。因此书的出版,他们从出版商那里获得了三万英磅。1989年他们被指控犯了与布莱克之逃有关的可起诉刑事犯罪。1990年4月为了保证依“1988年刑事审判法”作出的没收令的给付得以实现,又依此法发出了对波特尔和兰德尔的房产扣押令。被告因此于1990年向高等法院提交了解除此扣押令的申请,其理由是他们因书的出版而获收
In October 1966, George Black, who was sentenced to 42 years in prison for being accused of spying for the Soviet Union, escaped after serving five years in the Worms-Shrewsbury prison. Twenty-four years later, Pat Porter and Michael Randall produced a book called “Blake’s Fate - How and Why We Are Aiding Black.” In the book, both of them recognize their role in Blake’s escape. So the book was published, they got thirty thousand pounds from the publisher. In 1989, they were accused of committing criminal prosecutions related to Black’s flight. In April 1990, in order to guarantee the payment of the confiscation order made under the Criminal Justice Act 1988, the order of attachment to Porter and Randall was also issued pursuant to this Act. The defendants therefore filed an application with the High Court for the dissolution of this warrant in 1990 on the ground that they were received as a result of the publication of the book