A police officer’s daughter has been jailed for three years after posting sexual images of his ex-lover on an escort site in an act of revenge.
Eleanor Brown, 24, “conspired” with her sister Sophie and her mother Sarah – both ex-police officers – to create a fake profile of the woman on the site, Leeds Crown Court heard.
Brown had held a grudge against her victim since she was a teenager after her father Geoff had a short-lived affair with her in 2012, the court was told.
The affair took place while her father and the victim were both police officers but it ended and they stayed with their spouses, Judge Alex Menary said.
Ten years later, Brown noticed the woman’s husband had started a business and this was a trigger for first posting offensive messages on his Facebook page, calling his wife a “home-wrecking slag” and a “tramp”.
Brown then sent the husband sexual images of his wife before creating the fake profile on an escorting and sex services website, also featuring intimate photographs.
Harry Crowson, defending, said Brown had been “egged on by her family” after being given the sexual images by her mother.
However, neither the mother or sister were charged in the case.
Sophie Brown, who was a patrol officer, was reportedly found to have committed gross misconduct at a police hearing in April for having “encouraged” her sister’s actions.
The misconduct panel ruled she would have been sacked had she not already resigned.
The escort profile created by Brown was titled “Ex-police with all my uniform which I like to wear for my clients” and used the phrase “kinky copper”, the court heard.
Judge Menary said the escort site post included the husband’s mobile number and he was then bombarded with texts and calls after it went live.
In a victim personal statement read in court, the woman said that to describe herself as feeling “violated” was an “understatement”.
She explained that she was “sickened” that the images were posted on a public website and shared for the sexual gratification of strangers.
The woman said: “I’m finding it difficult to believe a woman would do that to another woman.”
She also said she was “fearful of what [Brown] is capable of”.
Brown’s attitude after she was arrested showed she was “utterly, utterly unapologetic”, “totally devoid of any moral compass whatsoever” and that her “lack of remorse was staggering”, the judge said.
He also said she had engaged in “vindictive, selfish and vengeful offending”.
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Judge Menary added that one of the most “egregious and vindicative” aspects of the case was Brown’s contact with the victim’s daughter, who had not been told of the affair.
The judge heard how Brown told her “I will make sure your mum is never allowed to forget what she did to my family”, and added: “Wherever she goes her photos will remain and follow her”.
Judge Menary described this as “shameful”.
Mr Crowson said it was “unfathomable” how Brown got involved, saying: “She became a warrior in war she ought never to be fighting.”
He added: “She needs to stop fighting a battle that’s not hers.”
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The barrister said his client had been severely traumatised by the events surrounding the affair in 2012, when she was shown the sexual images as a teenager for reasons the judge said had never been properly explained.
He said that, over the years, a woman she had never met had “become almost a caricature” to her.
Brown, of Peel Street, Morley, Leeds, admitted two counts of disclosing private images half-way through her trial earlier this year.
The victim and her husband had already given evidence by the time the defendant changed her pleas.
Judge Menary described this as the “ultimate act of brinksmanship” in court on Friday, adding that this was a “very serious aggravating feature” in the case.
Because of this, he gave Brown no credit for her guilty pleas and jailed her for three years.
