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Ex put ‘revenge porn’ pic online

- BY GORDON CURRIE

A TATTOO artist posted a revenge porn photo of a model so every one of his phone contacts could see it after she ended their brief relationsh­ip.

Alex Evans has been remanded in custody after he admitted uploading the woman’s naked image as his WhatsApp profile picture.

Evans, 29, admitted intentiona­lly causing the woman – who models on the OnlyFans website – alarm or distress by posting revenge porn.

He also posted threatenin­g messages to one of her friends.

Fiscal depute Lora Apostolova told Dundee Sheriff Court: “She had been in a relationsh­ip with the accused.

“They initially had a chance meeting and exchanged numbers.

“In October 2020 she ended the relationsh­ip. She continued to receive text messages from the accused. She asked him to stop the messages but he sent more.”

Evans – who has a history of violence and dishonesty – messaged: “You went to town with me. You are the lowest of the low.”

He called her “fat” and launched into a tirade of foul-mouthed abuse and repeatedly ignored her pleas to stop having contact with her.

Ms Apostolova said: “He thereafter put her naked image as his profile picture on WhatsApp – meaning that all his contacts could see her naked image. He then made a threat which she took to mean that he was going to post it on Facebook. She deleted her Facebook and believed that if he did it her friends would tell her.

“He then sent a message to her friend on SnapChat which contained her naked image. He sent a video to the friend of a black-handled knife taped to a wall and saying ‘be careful who you meet’.”

Solicitor David Patterson, defending, said: “I would submit there is no significan­t sexual element.”

Evans, a prisoner at HMP Grampian, admitted sending messages of an offensive nature to the woman, 24, in Dundee on 3 November 2020.

He admitted “disclosing a photograph which appeared to show her in an intimate situation” without her consent and intending to cause her “fear, alarm or distress.”

Evans also admitted sending messages, videos and voice recordings to a second woman in Dundee. Sentence was deferred for reports.

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