Revenge porn stalker facing jail after sheriff told of criminal record

COURT: Man made repeated phone calls to woman and sent her family and friends photo of her ‘in a state of undress’

A man who sent revenge porn images of his victim to her friends and family then ordered an HIV testing kit be sent to her door was yesterday facing jail.

Arran Adey subjected the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to a campaign of harassment lasting almost two months.

In one incident he sent her a picture of a revolver with a threatening message attached and in another posted pictures of her on social media with obscene comments below it.

Adey made repeated phone calls to the woman, sent her a series of texts threatening her and her family with violence and distributed photos to her friends and family showing her in a “state of undress”.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard Adey ordered unwanted pizzas and an HIV testing kit to be delivered to her.

The career crook now faces a lengthy prison term after a sheriff was told of his criminal record.

In 2012 he admitted spying on a woman through a garden window as she watched a film before breaking in and tying her to a chair during a robbery.

He and an accomplice subjected a 20-year-old woman to an hour-long ordeal at her Edinburgh home after threatening her with a screwdriver.

Last March he pleaded guilty to threatening to blow up a block of flats after barricading himself in a room and telling police he had a pipe bomb.

In December he was convicted of assaulting his 35 weeks pregnant girlfriend and throwing their Christmas tree across the room after being asked to help with preparing presents.

Adey, 30, a prisoner at HMP Perth, pleaded guilty on indictment to a charge of stalking committed between November 28 2015 and January 16 2016.

The offence was committed while Adey was on bail, having been released from Dunfermline Sheriff Court less than two months before he started his stalking campaign.

The offences took place in Cupar and Dunfermline.

Adey’s lawyer said she would give a full plea in mitigation at a later sentencing date.

Sheriff George Way deferred sentence until later this month for social work background reports.

Adey will remain in custody in the meantime.

Arran Adey will be sentenced later this month.