The former wife of a British diplomat today told of her disgust after he was caught on film having sex with two prostitutes in Russia. After the explicit video footage was posted on a news website, Sally Reader said she is glad she had divorced James Hudson. Mr Hudson, from Poplar, stood down as deputy consul general in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg in the Urals following the furore about the clip. It shows the portly, bespectacled year-old enter a room, reportedly in a brothel in Ekaterinburg, and sit on a sofa, kissing two blonde women in their underwear.
The video then cuts to explicit scenes of them having sex. Mrs Reader, a probation worker from Broadstairs, Kent, who was married to Mr Hudson for one year during the Nineties and has a young daughter with him, said: "He's changed a lot because he certainly did not look the way he does now. I'm glad I got out when I did. I want nothing to do with what he's done. A link to the film, which lasts four minutes and 18 seconds, was posted on a Russian news website under the title "Adventures of Mr Hudson in Russia".
In it, Mr Hudson first walks into a room wearing nothing but an open dressing gown. He is holding a wine glass. He kisses one prostitute, then another arrives and sits on his lap.
Before long the women are down to their underwear, and the trio drink champagne. The film then cuts to the bedroom for a shot of Mr Hudson and the two naked women on the bed. A spokesman for the Russian interior ministry in Ekaterinburg yesterday confirmed the video was genuine. It has been suggested that the film was made by agents from Russia's FSB counter-intelligence service in a bid to blackmail Mr Hudson.
An unnamed security source said: "Russian intelligence has a long history of making sex films to control people or further its aims. It is also virtually unthinkable that this could have been widely published online without some sort of tacit official approval. Mrs Reader, 36, who has remarried, added: "I had no idea James was in Russia.
