A comedian who played to an almost empty room at Goldsmiths Student Union despite tickets to the charity event being ‘sold-out’ could have been a victim of ‘no-platforming’.

Kate Smurthwaite, a London comedian and left-wing activist, performed her ‘sold-out’ show about free speech at Goldsmiths Student Union in New Cross but only six ticket-holders showed up.

Tickets to the show, The Wrong Kind of Feminist, were free but could be reserved online, with all on the door donations going directly to Refugee Action.

A twitter account claiming to be responsible for reserving all the tickets posted a statement saying: “Our aim was never to silence Ms Smurthwhaite[sic] , she could have done her show to an empty room as we are sure she has done before.

“We did not ask for it to be shut down, or for her to have another opportunity to speak in the national media about how she was ‘no-platformed’.

“This was a form of peaceful protest against someone who’s[sic] views we find abhorrent.”

The account, which states it is not affiliated with Goldsmiths Student Union, goes on to call Ms Smurthwaite’s views “transphobic, whorephobic, islamophobic, and bigoted.”

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Ms Smurthwaite said: "I spent several days telling people who got in touch that I was really sorry but there was no room.

"Given the SU's apparent reticence to allow the show to go ahead we wanted to be 100% we didn't exceed the room's fire capacity.

"On the night a few people showed up without tickets optimistically hoping to get in. There were six genuine ticket holders and a few organisers too.

"10 minutes before show time we started to worry, we had assumed people were congregating in the bar, but when we went to look the bar was empty."

After checking online the discovered that the tickets had been bought in large blocks with made up email addresses.

Ms Smurthwaite said: "We did the show anyway to ten people, including the security guards from the venue and the technicians.

"During the interval I bought every member of the audience a drink, not standard practice at comedy shows!"

Ms Smurthwaite has set up a ‘justgiving’ donation page for Refugee Action to make up for the lost donations which has currently raised £1,626 for the charity.

This is not the first time the comedian’s attempts to perform at Goldsmiths have been sabotaged.

Ms Smurthwaite's show was cancelled at the venue in 2015 following outcry from the feminist society who disagreed with her views over prostitution.

Goldsmiths Student Union have been at the centre of free-speech rows in the past.

In 2015 former Goldsmiths diversity officer Bahar Mustafa was charged with sending malicious communications for allegedly using the hashtag “#killallwhitemen”.

The charges were eventually dropped.

News Shopper have approached Goldsmiths Student Union for comment.

The fundraiser for Refugee Action is here.