The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Student blackmailed underage girls
A student who blackmailed underage girls into sending him sexually explicit video and pictures has had his sentence deferred for a psychologist’s report to be prepared.
Glen Wilson, 18, of Longforgan, a student at St Andrews University, pleaded guilty to a series of charges including inducing girls to send him indecent images of themselves and engaging in sexual activity by means of social media.
He also coerced and extorted them into recording images and videos with the intention of menacing them and putting them in a state of fear and alarm and threatened to send indecent images to family and friends and publish them on social media. All the girls involved were underage. Former Dundee High School pupil Wilson has also admitted making, being in possession of and distributing indecent images of children.
The charges were carried out between September 10 2015 and June 14 last year.
Perth Sheriff Court previously heard he had 697 images and 246 videos showing children aged between three and eight being sexually abused.
Police found a detailed record of pictures and videos on Wilson’s iPhone and iPad. They discovered he had sent the same chilling message 450 times: “You have two options. Either do exactly as I say or I press the send button.
“Block me, delete me, report me, tell your parents, and everyone you know will see everything. Everyone you know, your friends and your family.”
The court had also been told that Wilson had set up a Dropbox account filled with indecent images and video which he offered to paedophiles across the UK for details of “potential victims.” Wilson was remanded in custody. Sentence was deferred until October 10 for a psychological report but Sheriff Gillian Wade warned him he could face a “significant” time in detention.
A spokesman for St Andrews University said: “We are deeply concerned by this case. These offences occurred before Mr Wilson applied to study at St Andrews, while he was still at school. We were unaware of them. His studies were suspended by the university as soon as we became aware, and a further disciplinary process is under way.”