DUNDEE TEEN FINED £1000 FOR SHARING INTIMATE PHOTOS OF WOMEN ONLINE
A teenager convicted of uploading intimate photos of women online – leaving many victims suicidal – has been fined £1000.Sick Alastair Ferguson, 19, shared nude images and films to a public storage app after downloading them to a computer at a college.
Ferguson pleaded guilty to causing the women fear and alarm by uploading images and creating an online link for them to be viewed.
The victims were from Dundee, and many felt like taking their own lives after the photos were circulated.
Ferguson appeared for sentencing at Dundee sheriff court but avoided being added to the sex offenders’ register.
His solicitor claimed he was 'not a voyeur' and would 'never grace the courts again'.
Sheriff Derek Reekie fined Ferguson and remarked, 'You have clearly learned a very harsh lesson about the dangers of social media.' It was revealed that Ferguson was caught after police traced a computer at Dundee and Angus College as the source of the leak.
He told police he saw the images on Twitter and downloaded them but did not do anything further with them.
Ferguson admitted to uploading images and creating a link, which caused the women fear and alarm.
One victim, aged 25, said, 'I’ll never be the same again.'
