DUNDEE SNAPCHAT OFFENDER AVOIDS JAIL FOR SHARING SEEDY SEX ACT VIDEO
A creep who shared on Snapchat a video of a woman performing a sex act has been spared a prison sentence.Jason O’Neil filmed the woman while they were staying together at a hotel in Dundee in 2019.
O’Neil and the woman engaged in consensual sex but she ended all contact with the 27-year-old after her friends and family became aware of the video being shared on social media.
A sheriff ordered O’Neil, a repeat offender, to perform unpaid work as well as placing him on the Sex Offenders Register.
Sheriff Gregor Murray said: “What you did was an appalling breach of trust.
The (social work) report reveals that you have got an equally appalling attitude towards women.
If we don’t try something different, what we call the revolving door syndrome will start.” Dundee Sheriff Court heard how the O’Neil and the woman became involved in a casual relationship in April 2019 after meeting through mutual friends.
The woman booked a room at the Invercarse Hotel in Dundee to spend the night with O’Neil.
Fiscal depute Stewart Duncan described how she had five to six drinks and felt tipsy, then engaged in a sexual act with him.
The woman saw O’Neil on his phone during the act, which lasted about a minute before he put the phone down.
The next morning, the woman received a message from O’Neil’s ex-partner about a video he had posted on Snapchat of her performing a sex act.
She checked out and left the hotel, later discovering from friends and family that the video had been viewed by many others on social media.
She then blocked O’Neil.
O’Neil, of Middlehills, Coupar Angus, pleaded guilty to disclosing a video that appeared to show the woman in an intimate situation by uploading the video to Snapchat for multiple contacts between November 13 and 14, 2019.
He was ordered to perform 100 hours of unpaid work, placed under supervision for three years, and required to attend the Tay Project rehabilitation program for sex offenders during the same period.
Additionally, he was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for three years.
