“It went on for years.”
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In one email to her barrister late last year, Whittington vowed, “Your scumbag client won’t get one cent”. In a post to social media after defamation proceedings began, Whittington wrote: “Under Australian law, those who share defamatory material are guilty of defamation. I will never be silenced … think of me like a pit [sic] bull dog,” according to a Supreme Court affidavit seen by this masthead.
Months after the judgment, Whittington has yet to pay the damages ordered and has failed to remove previous defamatory posts.
Newman said the cost to her has been immense.
“I still have trouble sleeping,” she said. “I get anxiety. If he had posted something, I would lose my mind – I get anxious, that triggering feeling. I try and read it and I can’t, all the words blur, I lose concentration. At those times, it’s really, really hard.”
A British-Australian dual national who lives in Russia and spends time in Sweden, Whittington did not attend the proceedings on Elizabeth Street.
Last year, the former soldier’s charity Project Rescue Children (PRC) was deregistered by the Australian charity watchdog days before a BBC investigation claimed the rescues cited by it were fake.
“The right to free speech in Australia has been significantly curtailed. While certain systems and journalists protect paedophiles, and their sympathisers, I remain steadfast in my commitment to expose the truth,” Whittington said in a statement to the Herald that cannot be published in full for legal reasons.
Despite deregistration in Australia, Project Rescue Children appears as busy as ever. In an Instagram post from March 25, the charity claims to have worked with the Philippines’ National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to liberate four girls and 15 women from human traffickers.
The NBI’s website has not published any information about the matter and did not respond to the Herald’s questions. Last year, Project Rescue Children “provided information” to the policing body, a media release on its website says.
An Instagram post from a week ago boasted of “44 trafficked children rescued and now free”, “[six] children saved from online grooming” and “[Seven] traffickers arrested and charged” in the first quarter of 2025.
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