Video nasties leave MPs reeling with horror By Anthony Bevins Political Correspondent About 100 MPs last night left a Commons committee room feeling shocked and sickened - by a 22-minute film produced by Scotland Yard's Obscene Publications Squad. The show was sponsored by Mr Graham Bright, the Con- servative MP for Luton, South, who is proposing the Private Member's Bill which would outlaw video nasties. The legislation is to have its second reading itt the Commons on November 11, and Mr Bright explained last night: "I wanted to give members of Parliament the experience of seeing a video nasty because all too many people believe that a nasty is something like a hotted up Hammer horror movie. "Jt isn't; it's something entirely different. The scenes are quite horrific and leave nothing to the imagination at all." The film had been specially spliced together by Scotland Yard from some of the worst six or seven American and Italian tapes they had confiscated from video outlets. The result was startling., Mr Anthony Beaumont-Dark (Conservative, Birmingham, Selly Oak) said: "Some people think the sight of two or three people making love is aesthetic, but there cannot be two conflicting views about seeing a girl chopped up and her entrails ripped out and eaten." Mr William McKelvey (Labour, Kilmarnock and Loudon), said: "What we have just seen is bestial and horrific. To show this to youngsters would be deplorable." One of those who had to leave- early, Mr Jeremy Hanley (Conservative, Richmond and Barnes), said: "Many people did not want the 'showing to continue, they were so horrified by what they saw. I am still shaken now by what I saw. I am not a believer in total censor- ship, but r am afraid I think I have just seen where the limit lies." Mr Bright, who thought the showing would have been illegal without the protection of parliamentary privilege, said: "I did warn them. At the begin- ning of the meeting I did warn them not to feel ashamed if they felt like leaving and there were considerable numbers who had to leave. "We have seen gang rape, a girl was raped in a most horrific manner and left for dead, and we have seen sexual killings. I think most of what we saw was acted, but we did see a monkey killed by having its head smashed open and people eating the warm brains." Video nasties leave MPs reeling with horror