A woman has narrowly avoided prison after she posted revenge porn images on Instagram of another woman having sex.
Louise Billman uploaded several explicit images of the woman in various sexual positions, alongside comments calling her a ‘slag’ and ‘tramp’.
Billman, 40, also added a lengthy statement alongside the pictures of the woman, calling her her ‘homewrecker’ and a ‘stalkaway’.
Magistrates sentenced Billman, a jewellery model, to 20 weeks in jail, suspended for 12 months.
Billman’s sentencing, at Cambridge Magistrates Court, came after she was found guilty of disclosing private sexual images without consent at the same court following a trial in May.
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The court heard the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had been ‘stripped of her dignity’ by the revenge porn and feared who else had seen the images.
Prosecutor James Quelch said the incident, in June 2023, had ‘affected the victim’s day-to-day activities’ and made her terrified of the consequences.
The woman said in a victim impact statement: ‘I felt like I had been stripped of my dignity, my anxiety has increased, I am constantly thinking that people who know me have seen the images.
‘I am worried there will be repercussions for my family and child. In her posts, there were also images of my child. I am constantly worried about the images surfacing.’
Rachel Buck, mitigating, said her client had good character and had been ‘ostracised’ by her family for supporting her partner, Joey Baptiste, during his own court ordeal.
Baptiste, 41, was spared jail in 2021 after admitting a charge of coercive control against a former partner when Billman begged with the judge to spare him.
Heavily pregnant with his twins at the time, she told Norwich Crown Court he had turned his life around and was attending AA meetings.
Miss Buck added: ‘It is quite rare for somebody of such good character to be before the court.
‘She supported Baptiste through his trial. Some members of her family ostracised her for supporting her partner, apart from her mother. By June 2023, she had been cut off by lots of people and had no voice and no narrative.’
Billman was also ordered to pay £200 compensation to her victim for the ‘ongoing fear and trauma’ she was suffering.
There was also a £154 surcharge and a £650 contribution to court costs, reduced to £400 due to her “financial situation”.
Billman did not comment as she left the court.
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