SIXTEEN men, including a United Nations lawyer, a missile designer and

a lay preacher, have been arrested after a two-year investigation by

Scotland Yard's obscene publications squad.

They face a total of more than 100 charges, including assaults, drug

charges and obscene publications offences, Scotland Yard said.

One of the men is a missile design engineer, who works for British

Aerospace at Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

The men were arrested over the past month following an investigation

called Operation Spanner, which also involved a number of provincial

police forces.

The accused have addresses in Wales, Hereford, Worcester, Shropshire,

Birmingham, Bolton, Cleveland, Suffolk and London.

They have been given bail and will appear at Camberwell Magistrates

Court in London on October 9. Scotland Yard said no more arrests were

expected.

It is understood the investigation, one of the largest by the obscene

publications squad, was launched following an inquiry into advertisments

in homosexual magazines.

Scotland Yard yesterday released the details of the men and charges.

Mr Donald Anderson, 60, a retired pig breeder of Harford, Llanwdra,

Lampeter, Dyfed, Wales, is charged with being concerned with the running

of a disorderly house and buggery of a dog and a donkey.

Mr John Atkinson, 48, an antiques restorer and restaurateur of High

Street, Broadway, Hereford and Worcester, is charged with aiding and

abetting grievous bodily harm on himself.

Mr Anthony Joseph Brown, 54, unemployed, of Heathmere Avenue, Yardley,

Birmingham, is charged with conspiracy to commit assaults.

Mr Graham William Cadman, 52, an ice cream salesman, of Duncan Street,

Horwich, Bolton, faces charges of keeping a disorderly house, conspiracy

to assault and taking and distributing indecent photographs.

Mr Christopher Carter, 37, a fancy dress hire proprietor, of New

Street, Frankwell, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, is charged with aiding and

abetting keeping a disorderly house and assault.

Mr Peter John Grindley, 41, of Prees Green, Whitchurch, Shropshire, a

care assistant in a home for the mentally handicapped, is charged with

conspiracy to assault and drugs offences.

Mr Albert Groom, 54, a hotel porter, of Balmoral Avenue, Thornaby,

Cleveland, is charged with conspiracy to distribute indecent material

and aiding and abetting an assault.

Mr Roland Jaggard, 42, a missile design engineer with British

Aerospace at Stevenage, of Kneller Road, Welwyn Garden City,

Hertfordshire, is charged with conspiracy to assault and grievous bodily

harm and assault, occasioning actual bodily harm on himself and others.

Mr Paul John Kelly, 23, unemployed, of Makinson Avenue, Horwich,

Bolton, is charged with keeping an unruly house and actual bodily harm.

Mr Colin Laskey, 46, a computer operator, of Llanwern Road,

Pontypridd, mid-Glamorgan, South Wales, faces charges of conspiracy to

assault, running a disorderly house, grievous bodily harm, actual bodily

harm and publication of indecent material.

Mr John Henry Lofthouse, 49, of Cotmer Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, a

fire station officer, is charged with aiding and abetting actual bodily

harm on himself and the theft of a cylinder of nitrous oxide from his

employers.

Mr Saxon Lucas, 57, a restaurateur and lay preacher of Murstow Green,

Evesham, Hereford and Worcester, is charged with grievous bodily harm

and actual bodily harm.

Mr Anthony Oversby, 56, a tattooist, of Gloucester Terrace, Bayswater,

West London, is charged with actual bodily harm, grievous bodily harm

and obscene publications offences.

Mr Graham Sharp, 39, a photograpic developer, of Vicarage Road,

Coalpit Heath, Bristol, faces charges involving the distribution of

indecent material.

Mr Ian Wilkinson, 56, a forester of Prees Green, Whitchurch,

Shropshire, is charged with conspiracy to assault, possession of

cannabis and LSD and an offence under the Protection of Children Act.

Mr Christopher Alexander Zimmerli, 51, a lawyer with the United

Nations, of Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, North London, is charged with

actual bodily harm.