secretly recorded a client for blackmail, court told

[joggon]

Prostitute secretly recorded a client for blackmail, court told

https://www.independent.ie/irish-new...-37473352.html

Alan Erwin
October 30 2018 2:30 AM

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A prostitute threatened to send a secretly recorded sex video to a client's fiancée if he didn't hand over money, a court has been told.

Prosecutors claimed at Belfast High Court that the man also received a screenshot of him standing naked as part of the extortion plot.
Details emerged as the 22-year-old woman accused of targeting him was refused bail. Lorna White, of Market Street in Tandragee, Co Armagh, faces counts of blackmail, possessing criminal property and intimidation of a witness.
Her boyfriend is charged with similar offences over allegations they demanded money with menaces. The injured party informed police earlier this year he was being blackmailed by a prostitute and another unknown man, the court heard.
According to the prosecution he had met her several times for sex, either in his car or at her flat, after they began contact in July 2017. Kate McKay, for the prosecution, claimed Ms White and her partner then started requesting cash to stop his fiancée finding out he had been seeing a prostitute.
Following one meeting in March the man allegedly received a text message from the co-accused's phone.
"He was informed the applicant had videoed them having sex, and if he did not pay £500 they would send the video to his fiancée," Ms McKay said.
In a further phone call he was allegedly told he owed £1,000 (€1,100). It was claimed the pair drove him to an ATM to withdraw some of the cash.
During a series of alleged text messages the figure was then said to have increased to £3,000 (€3,400).
"He was sent a screenshot of him standing naked in the applicant's bedroom," Ms McKay contended.
"At this time the injured party was under financial duress. He went online to increase a loan he had to pay the applicant and co-accused, but decided to go to the police."
Ms White and her boyfriend were arrested in May this year after phone checks were carried out.
Although they were released on police bail, Ms McKay claimed the injured party's fiancée then received messages from a Facebook profile asking her to get him to drop the charges.
Opposing bail, the prosecutor submitted there could be further alleged witness intimidation if Ms White was freed.
Defence counsel Justin Byrne argued she should be released due to delays in the case. He said: "She accepts, although doesn't say at interview, that she was working as a prostitute.
"She met this man (and) her case is she was collecting money owed to her from him. He had been a regular client."
Madam Justice McBride ruled bail must be refused.
Irish Independent

[Forceuser]

Boyfriend has previous too

http://www.irishnews.com/news/2013/0...-escort-69572/

A 21-yeAr-old man who impersonated a police officer and then robbed an escort in a Belfast hotel room has been jailed for four months.

Jason Melvin Hamill, whose address was given as the Simon Community Hostel in Henry Street in Ballymena, appeared before Belfast Magistrates Court yesterday charged with impersonation of a police officer and theft.

The court heard that the offences took place on october 22 last year when the defendant met an escort in a room at days Hotel in Belfast city centre. on arriving at the room Hamill told the woman that he was a police officer and she was under arrest.

He asked the woman for identification and the court heard she showed him a passport and bank cards.

He then told the woman to get changed, that she was not under arrest but would have to attend Musgrave Police Station to receive a caution.

While the woman was in the bathroom changing, the court heard that Hamill stole £215 from her purse before he left the room.

The woman then discovered the theft.

A defence solicitor told the court that his client, who was claiming Job Seekers Allowance, had a "significant gambling problem" which had led to "financial ruin".

However the lawyer said his client had a "horrendous record" including a three-month custodial sentence in March for a separate offence.

The solicitor said the 21-year-old was "now taking steps to make good all of the wrongs". district judge George Conner told the defendant that he had "picked someone who would not go to police".

He sentenced Hamill to three months in jail for impersonating a police officer and four months - to run concurrently - for theft.

Following the hearing, Hamill was bailed to appeal the sentence.

[Cannonshot88]

literally my worst fear
my life would crash around me
cant understand wy people are happy to wreck lives for a quick bit of dirty cash.

stuff like this genuinely puts me off my next punt.
was looking at girls in belfast at the moment too.

will be doing plenty of homework before i book.
anyone in bfast area that can advise in pm feel free

[Cable87]

So the lad in the story posted by Forceuser impersonated an officer, and ONLY got 4 months???

I'd have thought that's the type off offense where they'd properly throw the book at them, to deter that from happening. It's seems a tremendously light sentence for pretending to be police.

[Floki]

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2...nacted/en/html

60.— (1) A person is guilty of an offence if he or she—

(a) impersonates a member of the Garda Síochána, or

(b) makes any statement or does any act calculated falsely to suggest that he or she is such a member.

(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable—

(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding €3,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both, or

(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding €50,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or both.


And in 2015, this person got 2 years:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crim...arda-1.2123410

[SteveB]

literally my worst fear
my life would crash around me
cant understand wy people are happy to wreck lives for a quick bit of dirty cash.

stuff like this genuinely puts me off my next punt.
was looking at girls in belfast at the moment too.

will be doing plenty of homework before i book.
anyone in bfast area that can advise in pm feel free

I suspect this has nothing to do with Escort Ireland. Or with any respectable or reputable escort.

[philipkntz]

If it's true that its the same guy in both articles it looks to me like he met his match.
Good clients show up and give escorts money, they don't need to be blackmailed.

[JustinBeaver]

I have to be so careful now, its not enough I have to deal with the Paparazzi but now this

[FredLopez]

literally my worst fear
my life would crash around me
cant understand wy people are happy to wreck lives for a quick bit of dirty cash.

stuff like this genuinely puts me off my next punt.
was looking at girls in belfast at the moment too.

will be doing plenty of homework before i book.
anyone in bfast area that can advise in pm feel free

Its been always going on but guys just pay up because they got the added fear of the new law.
It must be so hard for anyone in the public eye all the time.

[FredLopez]

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2...nacted/en/html

60.— (1) A person is guilty of an offence if he or she—

(a) impersonates a member of the Garda Síochána, or

(b) makes any statement or does any act calculated falsely to suggest that he or she is such a member.

(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable—

(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding €3,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both, or

(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding €50,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or both.


And in 2015, this person got 2 years:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crim...arda-1.2123410

I once went to a fancy dress party dressed as a Guard, must say everyone kept their distance from me except for one lady who tried it on, now thinking back her name was Carla