A WOMAN accused of operating brothels answered "no comment" to every question when interviewed by a police officer, a jury has heard at Cardiff crown court.

But at the end of the interview, when all the allegations were put to her, Angela Choo replied "Bull..." said Detective Constable Lisa Jenkins.

Choo of Caerau Road, Newport, has denied four charges of operating a brothel, and two charges of money laundering.

Prosecutor Leighton Hughes said Choo came to Britain in 2004 and began working as a prostitute but she then decided she wanted to run her own brothels under the guise of "massage parlours."

She met up and developed a relationship with David Edmunds, 60, also of Caerau Road.

At an earlier hearing he admitted assisting in the operation of brothels and money laundering.

He told the court that Choo had passed on to him up to £60,000, which was transferred to her husband in Shanghai.

Matters came to a head, said Mr Hughes, when a TV licensing officer went to one of her brothels to investigate her not paying her licence.

She offered him sex and four days later she was arrested.

Under cross-examination by defence counsel, Christopher Rees, DC Jenkins agreed she had made notes of the conversation with the co-defendant which she kept but didn't disclose to the defence or prosecution.

She also agreed that she had had a taped interview with a witness who had had sex with the defendant and didn't disclose that either.

At one point she said "Yes, I have not done my job properly."

Legal arguments were taking place in the absence of the jury at the end of the prosecution case.

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