Man charged with threatening to distribute intimate image without consent

A former restaurant owner told his mistress “if I die I’m going to take you with me” before he threatened to post intimate images on social media when she refused his hand in marriage.

A man charged with threatening to distribute intimate image without consent appeared before Liverpool Local Court on Tuesday.

A former restaurant owner told his mistress “if I die I’m going to take you with me” before he threatened to post intimate images on social media when she refused his hand in marriage.

A 46-year-old man appeared before Liverpool Local Court on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to two counts of using a carriage service to menace/harass/offend and threatening to distribute intimate image without consent.

Agreed police facts state the victim and the man starting a relationship in 2016 and he would take, with the victim’s consent, “coloured photographs on his mobile phone” while he was still married.

Despite ending the relationship between June and July last year, he “continued communication with the victim regarding their relationship” on Facebook messenger.

Text messages the former restaurant owner sent.

Police facts state he messaged the victim in Nepalese: “Even if I die, I’m going to take you with me. I’m going crazy already” on December 19.

The following day he messaged the victim she had “made me cry, you told me that I used you and now you’re going to marry another Australian guy for permanent residency”.

“I’m going to take revenge for all of this, you and your whole family. I’m not going to cry anymore whoever told you to do all this, I’m going to take revenge for all of them, you hurt my heart,” agreed police facts state.

He called the victim and told her he would “divorce my wife in a month, would you marry me?”.

The victim told the man “you’re a crazy person, I do not want to marry you” before he threatened to post intimate images online.

“I still have all the photos (intimate images), you will be begging me for forgiveness and if not I will put them on social media,” police facts state.

Text messages the former restaurant owner sent.

He sent the victim a photo of the pair during an intimate act and the victim attended Liverpool police station to report the incident.

The intimate images were shared to each other whilst in a relationship on a social media app, ‘keep safe’.

The man’s lawyer argued her client had a limited criminal history and had stopped working at the restaurant.

Magistrate Andrew Miller said the man’s actions were “reasonably serious” and he threatened to send intimate images to punish the victim for rejecting his continued advances.

“People need to realise that when they breach that trust there will be significant penalties,” he said.

The man was convicted and sentenced to a community corrections order for two years and ordered to pay a fine of $1000.

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