A barman who posted naked photographs of an ex-girlfriend on Facebook, as well as video clips of them having sex, has been given a suspended jail sentence.
Leicester Crown Court was told the 25-year-old used the embarrassing images to try and persuade the victim to have sex with him "one last time".
After the video clips and nude photos were removed from the social networking site, he then offered to hand over a memory stick containing the images – in exchange for sex.
The victim, in her early 20s, refused to meet him and alerted police.
The defendant, who is not being named by the Mercury to protect the victim from further distress and embarrassment, was given an eight-week jail sentence, suspended for two years.
He admitted an offence of persistently making use of a public electronics network – Facebook and text messages – for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
Sentencing, Judge Michael Pert said: "This conduct was deeply unpleasant.
"Young people seem to regard it as appropriate to take compromising photographs of each other, little appreciating it's just a mouse-click before it's on the internet. You found yourself in possession of photographs taken of your ex-girlfriend that she, or any woman, would be mortified if they were made public – and you published them. It's despicable.
"It's conduct of which you should be deeply ashamed."
Robert Underwood, prosecuting, said the defendant and victim had known each other for many years and, in 2012, embarked on a three month relationship.
He said: "During the course of intimacy, they took various photographs and video-taped themselves having sex.
"He broke off the relationship. She was upset, but got over it."
In January 2013, the victim had a Facebook friend request from a fictitious person using a bogus name, created by the defendant. When she checked out pictures on that person's Facebook account, she saw four videos of her having sex with the defendant and a number of photographs.
She contacted the defendant, who claimed to know the fictitious person and offered to speak to him to get the pictures taken down – if she would have sex with him.
The images were taken off the bogus Facebook account, but the defendant then sent her text messages pestering her for sex.
Mr Underwood said: "He told her he would give her the memory stick containing all the images if she'd meet him and have sex."
She replied by text: "I'm not giving you sex, why can't you understand that?"
Sally Bamford, mitigating, told the court: "It was the case of a spurned ex-boyfriend desperate for emotional contact."
Judge Pert then intervened, saying: "No, he was desperate for sex.
"It's sordid in the extreme."
Miss Bamford continued: "Towards the end, his text messages are sad, including, 'I love you and wanted to give things another go.'
"He accepts it caused a huge amount of distress to the complainant, by making private images public, and that it's an embarrassing episode in his life.
"His personality is prone to obsession, because of the relentless behaviour which caused her distress.
"He knows he's got to leave his phone alone."
