"Eliza Carthy felt full of dread as her phone buzzed through the night once again. As a world-renowned musician, she needed her sleep - working long hours touring while caring for her 84-year-old father, legendary folk singer and 2025 Mercury Prize nominee Martin Carthy. But still, the messages kept on coming, often into the early hours of the morning. What had started as a friendly conversation over Facebook between performers had turned sinister almost overnight."
""He would just send reams and reams and reams of pictures of himself naked and videos of himself masturbating," she said. "Sometimes he would delete them and sometimes he wouldn't, and then, interspersed with that would be videos of him playing at the Albert Hall." The man sending these messages was Ben Gunnery, 46, a successful violinist from Vauxhall, London, who has performed all over the world."
Eliza Carthy felt dread as persistent late-night messages from a stranger invaded her sleep and caregiving routine. Ben Gunnery, 46, a successful violinist from Vauxhall, London, added her on Facebook in June 2024 and escalated from compliments to sending explicit images and videos, sometimes hundreds of masturbatory clips interspersed with performance footage. Carthy, 50, who cares for her 84-year-old father Martin Carthy, asked him to stop but received repeated messages and deletions. Six more women in the music industry reported similar targeting. The harassment caused distress, sleep disruption, and boundary violations for recipients.
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