Lecturer jailed for sending indecent messages to teens

Alecturer found guilty of sending a series of indecent S n a p c h a t messages to two former students has been locked up.

Lewis Bryan, 29, also tried to blackmail one of the men by saying he would not submit his coursework to the SQA unless he sent him indecent material.

He committed the offences while he taught the men – who were still teenagers at the time – at Dundee and Angus College’s Arbroath campus.

Bryan was sentenced to 27 months in prison at Dundee Sheriff Court and was placed on the sex offenders register for a decade.

As he was led away to the cells, Bryan do it.”

A jury found Bryan, who was working as a chef prior to being jailed, guilty by a majority verdict of two charges of coercing the men to look at sexual images and one charge of attempted extortion between January 2017 and March 2018.

The court said:

“I heard didn’t one of the men was “traumatised” by Bryan’s conduct.

Jurors were also shown a screenshot selfie of Bryan with the caption “send nudes (obviously)” which one of the victims said Bryan sent to him while he was teaching.

One of the victims said previously that Bryan, of Bee chwood Road , Arbroath, sent lewd images with a p a r t n e r, using emojis to cover his genitals.

The ex-pupil revealed he was able to identify Bryan in some photos by tattoos on his body from American television series Twin Peaks and the video game BioShock that he had shown students in class.

Bryan returned to the dock fo l low ing the preparation of reports.

Defence solicitor Paul Parker- Smith said that Bryan continued to strenuously deny his guilt, despite being convicted by the jury.

Mr Parker-Smith urged Sheriff Alastair Carmichael to impose a community payback order on Bryan.

However , Sher i f f Carmichael ruled that only a jail term was appropriate due to the nature and gravity of the offences.

He said: “The jury convicted you of these offences.

“These are offences, there’s element to them.

“In my v i e w, these charges are so serious that there’s no option but to impose a custod ia l sentence.” serious a sexual

Lewis Bryan.