A 23-year-old man had threatened to upload nude videos of his ex-girlfriend after she asked him for the money that he owed her.
He was then sentenced to 12 weeks imprisonment on 7 June.
The parties cannot be named due to a court order protecting the identity of the victim, with the plan pleading guilty to one count of threatening to distribute intimate recordings of the woman without her permission.
Background
The couple were in a relationship between 2018 to 2021, and the victim had lent the man money for him to pay off his debts.
They then broke up in January 2021 and the victim continued lending him money after that.
In July 2021, the man then agreed to repay the victim the money that he owed via monthly instalments, with the total sum being more than $12,700.
The victim texted the man on 10 December about the payment for the month which he had yet to do so, and an argument then ensured with the man saying that he will not pay her from then on.
He then told her that if she posted about him online, he will post about her online, as well as threatening to post photos and videos showing her nude.
The man then sent her two videos of her in the shower and 7 photos of her in her underwear, with her face being visible in the video and some of the photos.
He then told her that she had lent him the money willingly, and whether he wanted to return the money to her was his business.
The victim was shocked to see the photos and videos which were taken without her permission.
When they were dating, the man had entered the toilet while she was showing and waved his phone around, and the victim had told him to not take any photos.
The victim felt scared because she believed her ex-boyfriend would go ahead and post the photos and videos, and she then made a police report.
The man then deleted the photos and videos and when his electronic devices were screened by the police, they found one of the photos on his phone; none of them were uploaded though.