Man sends naked pictures of ex to her family and posts them on Instagram

A revenge porn victim felt too scared to go out after he ex-boyfriend posted naked photos and videos of her on social media and sent them to her family.

Gareth Rees uploaded the materials of his 'distraught' former partner on Facebook and Instagram after the couple split up, the Liverpool Echo reports. He also sent 'sexual material' of her to her daughter's boyfriend - who did not open the message.

The victim was left so devastated by his actions that she was unable to even walk the dog, a court heard. Yesterday (September 15), Liverpool Magistrates' Court was told how the pair had been in a relationship for around a year before their romance came to an end in early May, 2022.

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But 44-year-old Rees, of Barrington Road in Wallasey, had a 'strong, visceral and disproportionate reaction'. On May 6, he sent the material to her daughter's boyfriend. Just over a week later, he posted an explicit video of the woman on Instagram.

The following day, Rees messaged a pornographic image to another of her ex-boyfriends but deleted the picture before it was seen. Around a month later, he posted a photograph of her to Facebook in which her face could not been seen.

The latter act put him in breach of a six-month non-molestation order which Rees was handed by Birkenhead Magistrates' Court on June 22. His vile campaign of harassment was described as causing her to 'suffer serious psychological harm'.

In a statement which was read out to the court on her behalf, the complainant described herself as 'distraught and extremely distressed' while she 'felt hopeless and was worried he would harm me'. She added: "When people stare at me, I'm