Sisters’ lives ruined after they posted intimate photos of father’s mistress online

Two sisters have ruined their lives by posting naked photos of their father’s mistress on an escort website, with one facing jail and the other losing her job as a police officer.

Eleanor and Sophie Brown posted private intimate pictures of the woman, who had an affair with their father, Geoff, a decade earlier.

The sisters also added the telephone number of the woman’s husband, which resulted in him receiving several calls from men.

Eleanor, 24, of Morley, West Yorks, is facing a prison sentence after she admitted disclosing private photographs without consent midway through her trial at Leeds Crown Court. Sophie quit her job with the police.

The court was told last week that Eleanor had uploaded photos to the escort website in 2022 along with the phone number of the former mistress’s husband for people to contact.

These actions were said to have caused the woman “a deep, sickening feeling of complete panic” and affected her husband’s business.

Geoff Brown, the sisters’ father, conducted an affair with the woman more than ten years ago while both were married, the court heard.

The affair was discovered by the family in 2015 when Sarah Brown, who is still the wife of Geoff and the sisters’ mother, found intimate footage that the woman had shared with her husband.

Eleanor began targeting the woman seven years later, posting “derogatory comments” about her on the website of her husband’s business and sending him intimate photos of his wife directly via WhatsApp.

She also contacted the couple’s daughter and told her: “I will make sure your mum is never allowed to forget what she did to my family.”

Meanwhile, Sophie resigned from her role as a patrol officer with West Yorkshire Police after she was found guilty of gross misconduct. A disciplinary hearing in April banned her from policing for life.

At the hearing, it was revealed that the sisters had planned to post the naked photographs on Gumtree and were going to advertise sexual services for £5, but settled instead on using an escort website.

While Eleanor carried out many of the actions, they were “initiated and encouraged” by Sophie, the panel was told.

During Eleanor’s trial, the prosecution described the actions as “a mean and calculated effort to cause distress in an act of revenge”.

Eleanor initially denied two charges of sharing private sexual photographs without consent, but changed her plea to guilty before she was set to give evidence in her own defence.

Judge Alexander Menary said that her admission of guilt had come at the “eleventh hour and 59th minute”.

Adjourning the hearing until sentencing next month, the judge said that it was “almost inevitable” she would go to prison but granted her bail.