The ex-wife of the British diplomat filmed cavorting with prostitutes in Russia has said she is pleased she left him when she did in the s. Sally Reader, 36, today spoke of her disgust after seeing the grainy images that showed James Hudson in a brothel in the country's third largest city, Ekaterinburg. Mrs Reader, who was married to the disgraced diplomat for a year, said that her ex-husband had let himself go since she saw him last - more than ten years ago.
Sordid: Envoy James Hudson is filmed lying back holding a wine glass as one woman appears to straddle him while another steps away in her underwear. Warming up: Mr Hudson pops the cork on a bottle of champagne in the film, thought to have been made secretly by Russian FSB intelligence agents.
She told the Sun: 'He never wore glasses and he was thin. I'm glad I got out when I did. I want noting to do with what he's done. Last night the Foreign Office was conducting an urgent review into whether the year-old was targeted in a classic sex sting by Moscow's secret services.
Mr Hudson has resigned from his post as deputy consul-general after his encounter with the prostitutes was posted on the internet under the headline 'The Adventures of Mr Hudson in Russia'. The Daily Mail understands that among the possibilities being considered is that Russia's FSB counter-intelligence service - the post-communism version of the KGB - tracked Mr Hudson's illicit activities and filmed him to try to blackmail him into becoming an agent.
In the four-minute film, Mr Hudson first walks into a room wearing nothing but an open dressing gown. He is holding a wine glass. Clinch: Mr Hudson kisses a scantily-clad blonde in the film posted on a website. Steamy: Mr Hudson kisses one woman's shoulders while the other stands in front. He kisses one prostitute, then another arrives and sits on his lap. Before long the women are down to their underwear, and the trio are drinking champagne.
