A Fife stalker uploaded a video to OnlyFans of her engaging in “sexual activity” with a man without his consent.
A court heard the man had previously consented to making intimate videos with Holli-Ann Thornby-Cook and uploading some images to the internet subscription site.
He later withdrew permission in writing to use images or videos of him in any way.
He found she had uploaded them anyway.
Thornby-Cook, 24, admitted disclosing the recording and going on to engage in a course of conduct against the man, which involved making unwanted phone calls and sending unwanted emails and text messages.
OnlyFans offence
When Thornby-Cook appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court for sentencing, fiscal depute Catherine Fraser said the man had been communicating with the accused online in November 2020.
She mentioned her OnlyFans site had “a showing that evening”.
The fiscal depute said: “Out of curiosity (the man) checked the site and found videos of the two of them engaged in sexual activity”.
When he challenged her about this, she told him: “The upload could have been worse. It could have significant signs it’s you.”
The man later told Thornby-Cook this was a violation and the footage was taken down from the site a short time later.
Stalking
Thornby-Cook also pled guilty to stalking the man between January 9 and February 1 2022.
Ms Fraser told the court this included making unwanted phone calls and leaving him 24 voicemail messages.
The fiscal depute said he also received emails from eight different email accounts he believed to have been created by Thornby-Cook.
She also sent unwanted messages through a gaming forum and via WhatsApp.
Thornby-Cook had also previously breached a court order by repeatedly contacting her former partner by phone, email and social media between December 11 2020 and February 10 2021.
Driving offences
The court heard Thornby-Cook was also previously convicted after trial of driving while disqualified in Dunfermline’s Dunlin Drive on April 26 last year.
Two months earlier, she had received a year-long ban for driving at more than 100mph in a high-powered Subaru on the A92 between Lochgelly and Cowdenbeath.
She said she had no memory of driving as she was suffering “dissociative episodes” at the time.
Defence lawyer Aime Allan said her client, of Lady Campbells Court, Dunfermline, is a vulnerable young person with “quite significant mental health difficulties”.
The solicitor highlighted Thornby-Cook is subject to sentencing young people guidelines and accepts responsibility for the crimes she committed.
Sheriff Susan Duff said Thornby-Cook had failed to comply with previous structured deferred sentences and social work have doubts she will comply with a community payback order (CPO).
However, the sheriff sentenced her to a CPO with two years offender supervision and stressed this was her “one chance” to comply, with prison a risk if she failed.
The sheriff also made a three-year non-harassment order.
Thornby-Cook was also banned from driving for two years, backdated to February 27 this year.
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