Cocaine dealer is jailed for posting revenge porn photos
Cocaine dealer is jailed for posting revenge porn photos of ex girlfriend on social media after police took TWO YEARS to unlock his phone because he refused to hand over PIN
- Daniel Davies, 27, was jailed for three years for posting sexual photos of his ex
- Davies would not give police his PIN code so police spent two years unlocking it
- They found the images of Davies ex, bestiality porn and details of a cocaine deal
A bitter man has been jailed for posting intimate photos of his ex-girlfriend without her consent after police took two years to unlock his phone and found the pictures.
Daniel Davies, 27, of Ebbw Vale, Gwent, refused to give the police his PIN code for his phone hiding the non-consensually posted photos, bestiality porn and details of a cocaine deal.
Davies has been jailed for three years and also has a restraining order set against him for three years.
Daniel Davies (pictured), 27, of Ebbw Vale, Gwent, has been jailed for three years and had a restraining order set against him for three years
Although Cardiff Crown Court heard iPhones are ‘almost impossible’ to unlock without the right PIN code Metropolitan police managed to get in.
Davies posted nine sexual photos of his ex-girlfriend, without her consent, on Tumblr under the false name ‘Daniel Kray’.
In a victim impact statement the victim said: ‘I have been worried and anxious about the images being shared on the internet and I have been worried my family and children will see them.
‘I feel helpless as I have no control over who views and sees the images.
‘When I go out I feel like people are looking at me and I feel embarrassed and violated.
‘It has made me feel paranoid and has affected my self-esteem.
‘I’m trying to move on from this but people keep sending links to the photographs so I still know they’re out there.’
Davies had threatened to post the images and then later claimed he had deleted them.
Cardiff Crown Court (pictured) heard that iPhones are ‘almost impossible’ to get into without a PIN code
But the victim’s friend saw the photos on Tumblr and the victim contacted the police.
His phone was seized in 2017 after his home was searched but his refusal to cooperate meant police had to work on unlocking it for two years.
The court heard the police found the sexual photos on Davies’ phone as well as a picture of a man having sex with a cow and offers to supply cocaine.
Davies pleaded guilty to disclosing private sexual photographs with intent to cause distress, possessing an extreme pornographic image and being concerned in making an offer to supply cocaine.
Stephen Thomas, mitigating, said his client understood he had caused ‘very serious distress’ to the revenge porn victim.
He added that Davies accepted posted the sexual images as an ‘act of revenge’ and ‘out of anger’ and accepts it was wrong.
Judge Richard Twomlow told Davies: ‘You caused your victim a great deal of embarrassment.
‘Revenge porn is a callous and mean offence and this is an example of that.’
In April this year the Revenge Porn Helpline saw a surge in reports with their website’s traffic doubling towards the end of March.
The majority of revenge porn victims are women according to a 2019 report, by the UK Council for Internet Safety, revealing that 60 to 95 percent are females.
Revenge porn was made an official offence in the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 in England Wales with similar laws coming into action a little later in Scotland and Ireland.
The first eight months after criminalising revenge porn in England Wales saw 1,160 reports of the crime.
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