Ganesh Kendale
A woman who posted naked photographs of her father’s former mistress on an escort site as an act of “revenge” has been jailed for three years.
Eleanor Brown set up a fake profile of the woman on the website, her trial heard, which led to the victim’s husband being bombarded with calls and messages.
Brown, 24, of Peel Street in Morley, had initially denied two counts of disclosing private photographs without consent, but pleaded guilty to both charges part way through her trial at Leeds Crown Court in September.
In a statement read to the court at Brown’s sentencing, the victim said she lived in “constant fear” of the photos resurfacing.
The court heard Brown’s father had had an extra-marital affair with the woman in the early 2010s, which was then discovered years later by Brown while she was a teenager.
In August 2022, Brown posted derogatory and abusive messages about the woman on an online profile promoting the victim’s husband’s business.
When this did not provoke the “reaction she wanted”, she then set up a profile of the woman on an escort site alongside her husband’s phone number, the court heard.
The hearing heard the victim’s husband was bombarded with eight phone calls and 13 texts within half an hour of the advert being posted.
Brown also contacted the couple’s daughter, who had not been aware of the affair, and sent her a “lengthy and vindictive” message, the sentencing heard.
She told her she would never “allow her to forget” what her mother had done “to my family”.
Judge Alexander Menary said Brown’s actions had been “vindictive, selfish and vengeful” and told her that she had “relished the obvious discomfort” the offending had caused.
The judge said her decision to initially deny the offences had been an “act of brinkmanship”, forcing the victim and her husband to go through the stress of giving evidence at trial.
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