A REVENGE porn creep who repeatedly harassed his ex-girlfriend was again in court docket final week accused of assaulting his newest accomplice.
Appearing at Newtownards Magistrates’ Court docket on Thursday, Ryan Dickson denied one depend of inflicting precise bodily hurt (ABH) on June 29 this 12 months whereas the Public Prosecution Service withdrew a “home offence” cost allegedly dedicated on the identical day and an extra ABH cost from two weeks earlier.
Adjourning the case to September 8, District Decide Mark Hamill stated he would repair a date for a contest at that stage.
It’s not the primary time that 32-year-old Dickson, from the Killaughey Highway in Donaghadee, has been in entrance of Decide Hamill.
Simply over 4 years in the past he was handed jail sentences totalling 10 months for harassment, breaching a non-molestation order and improper use of a communication community however they had been suspended for 3 years with the choose telling Dickson he was “appalled” at how the defendant had handled his ex.
In addition to the suspended jail sentences, handed down after he had paid a £1,000 compensation order, Dickson was additionally banned from driving for a 12 months as a result of he used his automobile to observe his ex round.
He made an eleventh hour confession to expenses of harassment and the improper use of a communication community “for the aim of inflicting annoyance, inconvenience or pointless anxiousness” on dates between February 1 and August 12 final 12 months.
He had already been convicted, in his absence, of breaching a non-molestation order between April 4-7 2017.
Whereas two different expenses accusing Dickson of additional breaching the non-molestation order and disclosing non-public sexual pictures of his ex “with the intention of inflicting her misery” weren't proceeded with, prosecuting lawyer Natalie Pinkerton informed the court docket the case was “in essence a revenge porn case.”
The court docket heard that in their relationship which ended shortly after, the sufferer had despatched Dickson two intimate footage of herself, which later appeared on a Fb web page which had 60,000 followers, inflicting the sufferer “nice misery and embarrassment.”