 A product of its time, Operation Spanner, came about as a result of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's drive to privatize Burton's public facilities. The obscene Publications Squad, a division of the Metropolitan Police, was an underperforming governmental agency likely to face Thatcher's cuts unless it bound something to justify its work. With Operation Spanner, it did. In videos, the squad discovered contained depictions of heavy SM activities, including images misconstrued as murder. Under the guise of protecting the public, the obscene Publications Squad set out to prosecute the participants for alleged wrongdoing. Their homes invaded, their careers interrupted, and their freedom violated. Litigants Tony Brown, Colin Lasky, and Roland Jaggard were among the men who faced prosecution and incarceration. The entirety of the case lasted 10 years. Messers Brown, Lasky, and Jaggard appealed their convictions all the way through the British Appellate Court system. They lost at every level. Their final appeal was the European Court of Human Rights, the highest appellate level available. There, they lost their case by a vote of 15 to 0. For many years, the Litigants rarely spoke of their ordeal. But now, Roland Jaggard has agreed to share with us his entire story.