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By Alan Rimmer

It was a grotesque image: A dopeylooking cartoon gnome, tongue lolling lasciviously, sitting atop a birthday cake his huge, flaccid manhood draped across the layers. It was described as “Just a laugh,” by the sender

The recipient, a middle-aged woman and CEO of the British Nuclear Tests Veterans’ Association, didn’t find it particularly amusing

Ceri Marsh, a mother of two boys, was used to tiresome sexual innuendo

Like the time an unflattering picture was shared of her at a conference: the photo was taken from the back focused in on her bottom

Ms Marsh didn’t find the accompanying unflattering caption particularly amusing either

But it was “just a laugh”, a bit of banter”

No harm done

Further offensive images followed, repugnant Salvador Dali-type sketches of naked men, were sent to her.

“Just for a laugh”, of course

Then there were the messages, everyday sort of messages, with the difference they were invariably spiked with crude innuendo and sexual references.

Just a laugh A bit of banter

Things took a slightly more serious turn when at a conference a colleague suggested in crude terms that they go to bed together

Ceri objected, but was told not to take things so seriously.

It was “just a laugh, a bit of banter ”

Ceri was being serious however She mem their

Pacific in the 1950s, wanted to bring to the Board some serious people, experts in various fields, who could add real gravitas to the charity her acts a sexual ade a fa were in a social club

But others were just as appalled as Mrs McDade. Some have now resigned their unpaid positions in disgust

Things came to a head when Ceri, whose serviceman father fell ill after witnessing nuclear bomb tests in the

In a follow up to a Serious Complaint report, she wrote:

“I have informed the Commission about four uninvited pornographic sketches sent to my personal messenger on 16 July 2022, which I discovered on 15 January 2023. Additionally, (Iwas) sent