Ashish Thamman posted a 20 minute video on Facebook of adulterous sex with his landlady
When she dumped him Thamman mounted a harassment campaign. Over three days he bombarded her with 200 calls and 50 text messages, Birmingham Magistrates Court heard.
It culminated in the internet posting of the sex tape which he had made without his lover's knowledge.
Victoria Luke, prosecuting, said in many of the messages Thamman sent he threatened to reveal the sex tape.
Thamman bombarded the woman with 200 calls and 50 text messages over three days
“She had no idea that a video had ever been made," she said.“It is a huge betrayal of someone’s privacy”Victoria Luke, prosecuting
"He threatened that he would show this to her family and cause her shame.”
The victim moved from Birmingham to London to get away from what was happening but still continued to receive calls and texts asking her to return.
Her cousin contacted her saying a Facebook account had been activated in her mum's name and on it was a video of the victim having sex.
The video had been viewed by members of the victim’s family causing her “distress and embarrassment”. There had also been comments added by family members.
Ms Luke said the woman had been left feeling “scared and blackmailed” and felt she was at the mercy of the defendant.
“It is a huge betrayal of someone’s privacy,” she said.
He was sentenced to 26 weeks' jail suspended for two years by magistrates, who described it as a “nasty” offence.
They also made an indefinite restraining order banning him from contacting the woman, and ordered him to pay £185 costs and an £80 victim surcharge.
Thamman posted the video without his lover's knowledge
He said he had the affair when his wife was pregnant before matters came out into the open.
He believed the woman was going to claim she had been raped by him and had posted the video as a form of “self-preservation”.
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