My court ordeal, by woman filmed naked in hotel

A MINISTRY of Justice adviser has slammed the “abysmal victim care” she has received after being forced to attend court for the sentencing of a man who filmed her naked in a hotel bed.

Emily Hunt campaigned for five years to bring Christopher Killick to justice after she woke up “naked and terrified” next to him at an east London hotel, fearing she had been drugged and raped. She pursued a rape allegation against Killick in the face of prosecution refusals to take on the case, and eventually he was charged with voyeurism and convicted in 2020 over a video he had taken without her consent.

Killick, 43, was back at Snaresbrook crown court yesterday, after admitting breaching a restraining order preventing him from contacting Ms Hunt, right.

She says the breach of the order in 2021 was “utterly terrifying” as she set out the devastating impact a “fixated” Killick has had on her life. And in a series of highly critical Twitter posts ahead of the court hearing Ms Hunt, who has waived anonymity, said she had been told she could only speak to the prosecutor by attending court in person, against her wishes and the advice of stalking experts. “This is abysmal victim care,” she said. “There are any number of ways the prosecutor could have spoken to me beforehand that would not involve me (and my supporters) having to go to court. Victims deserve better than this.” To worsen matters, the remote link she was watching on in the courthouse failed just as her victim impact statement was about to be read.

She was awarded an OBE for her campaigning work and signed up as an independent adviser to the Ministry of Justice on rape and sexual offences in 2021.

Judge Noel Casey gave Killick, from Lancashire, a 14-month suspended jail sentence.

He was arrested in January after posting tweets directed at Ms Hunt.