STUDENT BLACKMAILED 26 WOMEN INTO SEX ACTS ONLINE He told cops: ‘I know, it’s terrible’

COURTS SPECIAL

SICKO: Probert did it for his own pleasure A STUDENT blackmailed more than two dozen women into performing sex acts via the internet for his sick pleasure.

Joshua Probert had become a porn addict and after using various devious tactics to get his victims to send him intimate photographs of themselves he then resorted to “sextortion”.

One of his 26 victims – from England, Scotland, Wales, the USA, France, Belgium and the Netherlands – described it as “cyber rape” and when eventually interviewed by police he admitted: “I know, it’s terrible.”

Probert ignored desperate pleas from his distressed victims – 11 of them under 16 – to delete images and videos in which he had ordered them to perform depraved sex acts.

These include abusing themselves with items such as hairbrushes, tooth brushes, a vibrator, a pen and even a toilet brush.

One had to write the word “slut” in lipstick on her chest and two victims were made to insert a toothbrush in their anus and then brush their teeth with it.

A woman in the USA had been forced to use the toilet, lick the seat and place her head into the toilet while Probert was seen on screen masturbating.

Probert, now 22, who also used Skype, threatened to distribute the images directly to family and friends or distribute them on social media such as Facebook so they would “do your bidding,” said Judge Woodhall at Liverpool Crown Court.

He handed down a sentence 12 years’ jail after Probert, of Grimsby, had pleaded guilty to 66 offences involving blackmail, making indecent images and causing victims to engage in sexual activity between January 2014 and November last year.