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Possible jail sentence for angry ex who uploaded revenge porn (28 August 2015)
Date: 28/08/2015
A 52-year-old man from Catford in southeast London may face jail after he uploaded revenge porn images of his ex online and invited her friends to view them.
The Evening Standard reports that William Nelson set up a page specifically for the images after his girlfriend jilted him.
At a hearing in July, Croydon Magistrates’ Court heard that Nelson became angry after being jilted. He pleaded guilty to disclosing private sexual photographs without the consent of his former girlfriend.
He had set up a Facebook page in an assumed name and had invited 60 people to become “friends”, all of whom knew his ex.
The prosecution told the court:
“She received information from friends that they had received friend requests from a Facebook account that had naked photographs of her.”
When the woman had phoned Nelson about the images, he had told her he would remove them. However, she was advised by friends that the images were still online and she told Nelson she would go to the police.
He was due to be sentence on Wednesday (27/08/15) under revenge porn legislation introduced earlier in 2015, but had flown to South Africa to be with his mother who is ill.
Nelson will be sentenced at a later date.
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