HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT CONSTABULARY · view source
ETHAN ORCHARD
Age 30 · SOUTHSEA, HAMPSHIRE
Case and court outcome
- Verdict
- Four guilty pleas
- Sentence type
- Immediate custody
Verified case summary
Ethan Orchard, thirty, from Southsea, received a sentence of three years and four months for sharing falsified intimate images and encouraging harassment.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said a woman reported that more than one hundred altered wedding photographs of her had appeared on a website.
The images were made to look nude or sexualised and were accompanied by written fantasies about abuse.
Investigators identified Orchard, who knew the woman and had even alerted her to the posts without admitting responsibility.
Police found that he had also uploaded doctored images of two other women he knew and encouraged others online to harass one victim.
Orchard admitted three counts of sharing intimate photographs for sexual gratification and one count of encouraging an offence.
He also received a ten-year prevention order and an indefinite restraining order.
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