'Revenge Porn' Ex's Court Date

A jilted boyfriend published 'revenge porn' photos of his ex on a special Facebook account he created and invited her friends to view.

William Nelson, 52, of Montacute Road, Catford, pleaded guilty at Croydon Magistrates Court to disclosing private sexual photographs, with intent to cause distress and without the consent of his former girlfriend on June 8.

He was due to be sentenced today, but was in Africa visiting his ill mother and will return to court on September 24.

Prosecutor Miss Jackie Hughes said: "The victim was in a relationship with Nelson for a year and it ended on June the third and on June the eighth she spoke to him on the phone, telling him she did not want to see him anymore and he became angry.

"She received information from friends in her native Hungary that they had received friend requests from a Facebook account that had naked photographs of her.

"The facebook account was under an assumed name and included approximately thirty naked photographs of her that was sexual in nature.

"She identified them as pictures she had taken with the defendant and suspected he was behind the account.

"He created a fake site and uploaded images of them having sex.

"She phoned Nelson the next day and he told her he had taken them off, but her friends said they were still there so she told the defendant she would go to the police."

Nelson sent out approximately sixty friend requests to attract people who knew his ex to the site, with the message: "Anyone know who ***** is? She's been having sex with black and Arab men."