Victims outraged as revenge porn pervert is let off
VICTIMS of a pervert who posted their pictures on a degrading pornography website reacted with fury last night after he was let off with a caution.
Olly Whiting published explicit pictures of an ex-girlfriend and encouraged viewers to rape her because ‘she deserves it’.
The restaurant manager also allegedly put pictures of a 15-year-old girl on the site, superimposing them with explicit sexual imagery.
The 36-year-old even posted a picture of his sister taken in her school uniform when she was 16 years old and asked users of the site how much they would pay to rape her.
Whiting, a father-of-one from Eastbourne, East Sussex, was arrested by police two weeks ago after four women complained. But officers decided not to prosecute him after he admitted the offences and expressed remorse.
Instead, they gave him a caution for one offence of revenge porn and three counts of sending offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing messages.
The maximum sentence for revenge porn is two years and the maximum for sending offensive messages is six months.
Last night his victims accused police of failing to take their complaints seriously and said a caution amounted to no more than a slap on the wrist. His sister Charley Hough, who found out about the images while she was heavily pregnant with her first child, said she was ‘ honestly disgusted with the police’.
The 21-year- old from Cardiff said: ‘ Just the thought of Olly still walking around people having indecent thoughts makes me sick. I never want to see him again. He is evil.’
Pictures of Whiting’s ex-girlfriend Charlotte White, a care worker, were posted on the website with a message which read: ‘100 to rape her … 20 to make her miscarry’.
The message was particularly cruel as Miss White previously told Whiting that she had miscarried twice in the past 18 months. The 23-year-old, from Eastbourne, said: ‘ What Olly did makes me feel sick and violated.
‘They told me it doesn’t count as harassment because it wasn’t done directly to me, just through a website, but it still hurts.’
Pictures of Nikki Elliott, 25, a former colleague of Whiting, also appeared on the site alongside obscene mes- sages from men. In one image she is holding her two-year-old daughter, Olivia. Miss Elliott, also from Eastbourne, said: ‘It’s outrageous they let him go. He needs to be sectioned because he’s mentally disturbed.’
Pictures of the women were taken from their Facebook profiles and put on the American website. Police have asked the site’s owners to take the images down – but they have no power to order removal.
Officers are now investigating allegations made by a fifth victim which was initially recorded as ‘no crime’. There are fears Whiting has posted pictures of as many as 13 girls.
A mother told yesterday how her 15-year-old daughter started receiving sexual text messages from Whiting after he found her phone number on her Facebook page. He then allegedly uploaded an image of the girl.
She said: ‘My daughter reported it to the police. Then she told me that he had been given a caution I think it’s absolutely disgusting.’ Police said they were not investigating claims relating to a 15-year-old girl.
Inspector Rachel Barrow, from Sussex Police, said her force decided to issue Whiting with a caution because of his ‘remorse, the nature of the offences, and the likelihood of the caution being effective in preventing re-offending’.
‘I never want to see him again’