Student threatened by rapist over nude photos

A CONVICTED rapist who discovered nude pictures of a female student on a phone he found in a nightclub, and threatened to send them to all her friends, has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.

Andrew Allan, 43, who is already banned for life from making sexual advances to women, was told by a sheriff that his behaviour had to be seen against his background of “extreme sexual violence”.

Stirling Sheriff Court was told his 20-year-old victim lost her phone during a night out in Falkirk in October 2015.

She cancelled it with her phone company, but did not report the loss to police.

The court heard the phone contained pictures that she had taken of herself naked and sent via private messaging exclusively to her boyfriend. Two months later she received an email from Allan, who was a stranger to her, with the subject line: “I know all about you”.

The message read: “Maybe I’ll send the acid tab video to your mum and the naked ones to people on your friends list. What’s it worth to keep them all private? Get back to me soon or I’ll start posting.”

The court heard the woman went straight to the police, who traced the emails to Allan via his IP address.

When police raided his home in Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, they found the woman’s missing phone in a kitchen drawer, and Allan was arrested. Allan, a cleaner, of Grangemouth, pled guilty on indictment to contravening Section 6 of the 2009 Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act.