Renee-Anne Shirley, the whistle-blower who exposed Jamaica's negligible levels of dope testing in the run-up to the London Olympics, has been branded a "Judas" and a "traitor" to her country, and forced to relocate because of the backlash against her.

Shirley claimed she has been "blacklisted" because of her actions, saying she is "ostracised in the eyes of the entirety of Jamaica". The former executive director of Jadco, the Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission, last year disclosed that only a single out-of-competition test had been conducted by Jadco between March and July before the London Olympics.

"It is with trepidation people come forward," said Shirley, at the Tackling Doping in Sport conference at Wembley. "It is the culture you are going against. If you heard the things that are said about me, the things that are…

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