Secret filming voyeur took my life, Guernsey victim says

Lucy Domaille has waived her anonymity as a victim of a sexual offence to tell her story

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."

'Taken my children's innocence'

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."

In some cases, Kirk Bishop broke into people's homes and recorded them having sex

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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.

News of Bishop's offending spread over social media in September, before a post by Guernsey Police

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.