A young woman has told how her whole world collapsed after her best friend stole her images and shared a deepfake porn video where she was the main character.
Jodie, not her real name, was left crying on the floor of her room after she received a tip-off that explicit images of her were being used on a porn site.
The poster - who later was revealed as her BBC music prodigy pal - said these images made him 'so horny' and offered to supply more photos of Jodie if others would create more deepfakes.
The vile attack is one of a rising tide of devastating online sexual violence, with experts saying that AI software is leaving young women defenceless.
Now specialists warn that shock figures uncovered by MailOnline revealing the extent of deepfake porn across the UK are just 'the tip of the iceberg' - and many others will unknowingly be victims of the foul practice.
Children as young as 14 were found to have been targeted by the sick violation, as reports show 99.9 per cent of victims are women.
And a private members bill has been introduced in the House of Lords to criminalise the creation and solicitation of the 'degrading and depraved' AI images.
Jodie battled with the police for them to take the perverted violation seriously, who have since apologised for how they handled her case.
'There was a total lack of compassion and consideration and care throughout the whole process,' Jodie said.
'I wanted a restraining order but they said I'm not the only job they have to do. It was such a horrific experience, it has led to real trauma.'
This is the picture that helped Jodie solve who was creating deepfake porn of her - one she had taken with her best friend and not posted anywhere
Jodie tracked down who made the deepfake porn by analysing the photos the AI had used - one was a shot not shared on social media and was with her best friend Alex Woolf.
'My whole world was crushing down on me when I realised who had done it,' Jodie said.
Woolf, who had a double first from the University of Cambridge, was someone she 'loved and trusted, he knew everything about me, our families were intertwined'.
A BBC Young Composer of the Year winner, he had even played the piano at Jodie's grandmother's funeral, who had 'joked that he was my future husband'.
She said: 'You think people who do this are freaks and nerds but they're just people we know and live with and work with.'
Jodie had previously confronted him over 'creepy' reddit posts on an anoymous account but Woolf just replied: 'You wish I was that obsessed with you'.
In 2021, he admitted to 15 charges of sending messages that were grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing nature over a public electronic communications network.
'I broke down crying when the police called me, it broke my heart,' she said.
'Part of me really wished that it was all a big misunderstanding and there was another reason.
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Woolf was described as a 'teddy bear' and 'everything you could want in a guy friend', often posting about women's rights on social media
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'It tore my family apart, our brothers were best friends as well.'
Her story comes as MailOnline can reveal that UK police forces hold 81 reports of deepfake porn in the last two years against people as young as 14-years-old.
And the number is far below the reality - as some police forces did not hold the data and others refused to give accurate figures, including the Met.
Professor Clare McGlynn, who specialises in the legal regulation of pornography, sexual violence and online abuse, said the police reports 'represent the tip of the iceberg'.
She says that thousands of people use the websites every day.
Conservative peer Baroness Owen, who is leading the charge with the Data (Use and Access) Bill says police reports show 'there are huge numbers of women having their consent violated without their knowledge'.
Jodie said this figure 'is not a sign that this abuse isn't happening, it's a sign of how broken the system is'.
Without sufficient laws to protect women online, 'victims are left in limbo, while those responsible face no meaningful consequences' and the 'true scale of the problem is hidden'.
The musical prodigy had won BBC's Young Composer of the Year in 2012 and was frequently creating and performing his music
If people don't know that it is illegal, many will not bother going to the police, and those who do will often be told that there's nothing the cops can do without a suspect - 'that's exactly what happened to me,' Jodie said.
When she first went to City of London police, a middle-aged, balding cop took no notes and she was later told by an officer that no crime had been committed.
If she wanted the videos removed, she would have to ask the porn website herself, they insisted.
'All I could think was - is he delusional to think that I want to go back and look at each photo of me like that and trawl through the website?', Jodie said.
Detective Chief Superintendent, Head of Specialist Operations at City of London Police, Mandy Horsburgh has since apologised for 'any distress to the victim in our initial assessment and response' when contacted by MailOnline.
They added: 'We have reviewed our procedures since this incident in 2021 and cases, such as this, are allocated to specialist officers for assessment and investigation where appropriate. We will take every opportunity to learn from this and will conduct a review of the circumstances of this case and make any further improvements where necessary.'
Jodie later tried again with the Metropolitan Police, this time specifically asking for a female police officer who she gave a file of evidence with details across several years to review.
She said: 'It took a lot of strength, it was really traumatising having to go back'.
Out of 20 women posted on the site, Jodie either knew or tracked down 18 of them -the final two still have no idea their images have been shared.
After the initial interview, Jodie said every phone call from the police came from a withheld number and often at random times, including late at night.
Woolf attended an awards ceremony in July 2021 - a month later he was sentenced to a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for two years
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She was told she couldn't have a liaison officer because they believed there was no risk of threat or harm but then she had no one to contact when she saw the missed call and could only hope she would catch them the next time they rang.
She felt that the handling process was not treated with the sensitivity it required if it might have been considered as a sexual offence.
The Metropolitan Police admitted in response to these claims that they 'haven't always got it right' and will 'continue to learn from our past mistakes and ensure victims are at the forefront of everything we do'.
The failure of the police to recognise the horror of this sex crime was mirrored by the law, which had nothing to pin Woolf down with other than a misuse of a communications device.
After insisting she needed to share her experience, Jodie cried when she read her impact statement to the court about how much this had destroyed her.
So did her parents, as well as his.