A fact from Geoffrey Prime appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 December 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Geoffrey Prime worked for eleven years at GCHQ, and was only discovered to be a Soviet spy after his arrest in 1982 for the indecent assault of young girls?
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Did something get lost in the translation? Or is that the name of the charge in British English? "Indecently assaulting" seems to me to be a redundancy. How does one "decently" assault someone? Of course, if there is a way, I suppose the British will figure it out. John Paul Parks (talk) 16:38, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It's a peculiar artefact of legal language to denote a sexual element to the assault, rather than just 'ordinary' violence. You're right, however; but it's implication prevents tautology. --Scherben808 (talk) 16:28, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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