Being filmed in my home was torturous, voyeurism victim says

A woman who was secretly filmed in her own home has said the experience has "taken over her life" and left her feeling unsafe.

Lucy Domaille, from Guernsey, has waived her anonymity as the victim of a sexual offence to speak publicly about the impact voyeurism has had on her and her family.

"I don't sleep," she said. "Every noise, every time the door opens, you just feel like someone is watching you 24/7.

"It's taken over my life completely. It's consumed my mind."

In October last year, Guernsey Police told Lucy she had been the victim of voyeurism.

A man she had known socially for about 25 years had secretly filmed her getting out of the shower at her home, through a gap in her curtains as he crouched outside her window.

For Lucy, the incident has occupied her every waking thought since.

She said: "I'm just not the same person. It's soul-destroying, it's torturous."

It has also stripped her of her safety.

"When you go home, that is supposed to be the place that you feel safe, and I've lost that completely," she explained.

"I'm obsessed. I don't sleep... I have lost all of that."

Lucy was walking round a supermarket when her husband called her to tell her two plain clothes officers were at their home and asking to speak to her.

She later learned she had been a victim of Kirk Bishop, whose crimes she had first seen reported in a social media post by Guernsey Police the previous month.

She said the "emotional trauma" of it meant she was "not the same person - I don't think I ever will be".

As a mother of two young children, she said it had also changed the way she interacted with them at home.

She said: "Sometimes a child gets out of a bath and they'll run down the hallway to their bedroom with no clothes on. I don't want that now.

"They've taken away my children's innocence. I'm constantly making sure they're covered."

Forty-year-old Bishop pleaded guilty to a total of 20 charges involving 12 separate victims at Guernsey's Royal Court on 29 January and Magistrate's Courts on 9 February.

They included trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence, assault, voyeurism, burglary with intent and drug possession, and took place between 2022 and 2025.

In some cases he broke into people's homes and recorded them having sex.

Yet despite his conviction, Lucy said her experience with police and the justice system had left her questioning whether she would report a crime in the future.

She said some of the advice she was given by officers, after hearing what Bishop had done to her, was to "make sure your curtains are closed properly".

"I was really angry," she said.

She also discovered a photo of her face that was found on one of Bishop's devices was actually a still image from a video, which had initially been circulated to some of the staff at the police station in an attempt to identify her.

At that point Lucy said she felt her privacy had been breached - again.

"That doesn't sit well with me," she said.

"Straight away that ripple effect begins - this is no longer just my business."

She was later told there were two videos.

"Every time you think you've dealt with it, something else is thrown at you," she said.

She explained she thought her case had been dealt with "appallingly", adding: "So many mistakes, so many errors. I genuinely don't feel like I could go to them with anything anymore."

The court case was also adjourned six times before Bishop eventually appeared to enter his pleas.

Guernsey Police said the investigation had been extremely complex and that the force sympathised with Lucy, adding the impact of sexual offences "cannot be overstated".

It added it had since met with her, taken on board her feedback and was "sorry" she felt there were issues with the investigation.

The Royal Court of Guernsey said it not could comment on a live case that is awaiting sentencing, or on the number of adjournments.

Guernsey Police's chief officer said: "This was a complex case, with little to go on in order to identify most of the victims other than images.

"We have reassured Lucy Domaille, and others, that any image used was limited to an image of their faces only and the circulation tightly controlled.

"We also ensured that the nature of why we were asking for the pictures to be identified was not included in the brief to staff, respecting the right to privacy but balancing the need to ensure victims got justice.

Kitchen added that "Bishop was now where he belongs in prison, where he can do no further harm.

"Had we not taken a balanced approach to the use of pictures, some victims would not have been aware and would not have received justice.

"We hope all victims can rebuild their confidence in the knowledge this justice has been served."

Lucy said she had also been upset to learn the maximum penalty for voyeurism, under Section 95 of the sexual offences (Bailiwick of Guernsey) law 2020, was two years' imprisonment or a fine.

In Guernsey law, a person commits a voyeurism offence if they observe another person doing a private act, and that person does not consent.

"He can only get two years, regardless of the number of victims," Lucy said.

"I genuinely thought I was reading [the sexual offences act] wrong.

"He's going to serve six weeks for what he's done to me."

Guernsey's Committee for Home Affairs announced in November, partly off the back of this case, it was working on updates to the island's sexual offences laws to toughen up the penalties around voyeurism.

In February, officials from the States of Guernsey said they were working towards a "March or April debate".

A policy letter is yet to be published on the matter.

Lucy said that while this was a positive move, she was angry it would not apply to her case.

"If you are changing a law based on a crime that someone has committed, surely they should be punished in line with that?" she said.

Bishop is due to be sentenced on 15 May.

Lucy concluded: "One of the best things about Guernsey was that you felt safe. I've lost all of that."

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