Whiting posted a photograph of her aged 16 and in her school uniform, asking other users of the American-owned website how much they would pay to rape her.
She recalls the moment he made eye contact with her at the end of his hearing this week.
But, after he admitted what he had done, they decided not to prosecute him.
With hindsight, Nikki actually knew little about him..
There was also an incriminating pornographic photograph that Whiting had taken of himself which showed his hand bearing a distinctive silver ring he always wore.
Given the horror that he has inflicted on his victims, many will sympathise with the tearful scenes of anger and despair that ensued as they and their families watched him leave — ironically, under a protective police escort.
Nikki contacted several of the other women involved to warn them and they agreed that rather than confront Whiting they would report him to the police.
She returned to work in April 2014 before leaving for good in February last year to start a new job at another Eastbourne restaurant.
Description: None of this, of course, is any comfort to Nikki whose pleas for help in getting her photographs removed from the porn site have fallen on deaf ears.