The Crown Prosecution Service has issued guidance to ensure prosecutors are up to date with ‘revenge porn’ legislation as the first person believed to be convicted of the new offence awaits sentence.
Jason Asagba, 21, pleaded guilty at Reading Magistrates’ Court on 16 May to posting, texting and emailing intimate photographs of a woman with intent to cause her distress, an offence under the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015. Sentencing was today adjourned until 4 September.

The 2015 act created a new criminal offence of revenge pornography. It is a criminal offence to disclose private sexual photographs and films without the consent of an individual who appears in them and with the intent to cause the individual distress.

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