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.
‘Appalling attitude towards women’
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.
Five months later, the woman booked a room at the Invercarse Hotel to spend the night with O’Neil.
Fiscal depute Stewart Duncan said: “She had five to six drinks and felt tipsy.
“At some point, the complainer and the accused engaged in a sexual act.
“She saw that at one stage, the accused was on his phone.
“This lasted for around a minute before he put the phone down.”
Video had been widely shared
The following morning, the woman was still at the hotel with O’Neil when she received a message from the accused’s ex-partner.
She made the woman aware of a video she had been sent from O’Neil that had been posted on his Snapchat profile.
Mr Duncan said: “The complainer asked the accused why he had sent the video out but he denied doing so.
“She checked out with the accused and left.
“She found out from friends and family that the video had been viewed by a number of others.
“She then blocked the accused on social media.”
Sex offender
O’Neil, of Middlehills, Coupar Angus, pled guilty to disclosing a video that appeared to show the woman in an intimate situation by uploading the video to Snapchat for a number of contacts to view, between November 13 to14, 2019.
He was ordered to perform 100 hours of unpaid work and placed on supervision for three years.
For the same period of time, O’Neil must comply with the Tay Project rehabilitation programme for sex offenders and conduct requirements to monitor his contact with women.
O’Neil was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for three years.
