Fired, female deputy head who posted revenge porn of love rival
A DEPUTY headmistress has been sacked after posting revenge porn pictures of her boyfriend’s exlover on Facebook.
Antonia Traynor, 30, snapped in an online row with the unnamed mother, who had once dated her boyfriend Gary Openshaw.
In a drunken rage, she put an image of the woman’s naked breasts online and claimed in a caption that the victim had just sent the picture to Mr Openshaw, writing: ‘Now she is emailing Gaz her t**s FFS!’
Traynor was arrested later following an incident in which the court heard she made a throatslitting gesture towards the victim while threatening: ‘You are dead, you are f ****** dead.’
In a statement the victim, who has two children, said the threats had ‘a massive impact’ on her family and had forced them to move house.
‘Someone who has a good job should know what damage this can do,’ she added. ‘It has caused me maximum humiliation. I do not think she cares about the effect this has had.’
At Manchester Magistrates’ Court, Traynor of Swinton, near Salford, was found guilty of disclosing private sexual photographs with intent to cause distress and using threatening behaviour. Magistrates gave her a restraining order banning her from contacting the victim for 12 months.
She has since been dismissed from the school she worked at and is claiming benefits.
The feud began after Mr Openshaw began dating Traynor in 2019 having broken up with the other woman, the court heard.
Prosecutor Eileen Rogers said Mr Openshaw was ‘arguing over Facebook’ with his ex-girlfriend in January this year when Traynor sent her a message saying: ‘Please give me a ring.’
An argument ensued and both women said ‘nasty things to one another’, she added. ‘Later in the evening the complainant received a call from a friend to say the defendant had posted a photo of her on Facebook and that was of her breasts.’
It was accompanied by the words ‘Now she is emailing Gaz her t**s FFS!’ as well as laughing emojis, Miss Rogers said. Other
‘It was a stupid drunken mistake’
comments read ‘freak mate’ and ‘stalker’.
The prosecutor said the ex-girlfriend felt ‘disturbed’ at seeing the image, which had been taken ‘some time ago’.
In a statement to the court, the victim said she felt ‘embarrassed’ to know parents at her children’s school would have seen the image. The court heard Traynor threatened the victim in March after learning the case was going to trial. The victim told police she was driving to pick her children up from school when a car blocked the lane, with the driver waving at her ‘in a frantic way’.
‘My immediate thought was I made a driving error so I mouthed “Sorry”... then I realised it was Antonia,’ she added.
She said Traynor threatened: ‘You are dead, you are f ****** dead.’ The victim added: ‘She was crossing her finger across her throat in a gesture.’
In mitigation, defence lawyer Darin Millar said Traynor had come out of an abusive relationship when she began dating Mr Openshaw while ‘holding down a difficult and responsible job’.
He claimed the victim had sent ‘abusive and threatening messages to my client to disrupt the new relationship’, leaving her ‘at breaking point’.
He added: ‘She had a bottle of wine, took antidepressants and posted a picture of the complainant’s breasts which had been sent to Mr Openshaw months before and says this is the kind of person making comments about my boyfriend. It was a stupid drunken mistake, although it is revenge porn.’
He said the conviction meant she might never get a job in education again, adding: ‘She has regretted this every day, she will not do it again.’
Traynor was also given a 12month community order, told to complete 150 hours of unpaid work and must pay £320 in costs and surcharges.
Magistrate Ronald Marshall told her she was not being jailed due to her ‘previous good character’.