A man who forced a woman to film herself having hotel sex sessions with a man he found on the internet and then sent the videos to her family during Christmas dinner is facing more than five years in jail.
Clive Weatherhogg set up the sessions over the course of a year for the woman and Edward Amobi, who he found through a seedy website, Dundee Sheriff Court was told.
Weatherhogg asked to be in the room tied to a chair while they had sex. When they refused to let him stay, he made them film the sessions.
Weatherhogg later uploaded a video of the pair having sex to blogging website Tumblr and sent it to the woman’s sister as the entire family sat down to their Christmas dinner on December 25 2014. Weatherhogg, 42, of Balmalcolm, by Cupar, denied three charges under the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act but was found guilty by a jury of coercing the woman into having sex with Mr Amobi and sending the revenge porn video.
Sheriff George Way remitted the case to the High Court for sentencing and said his five-year maximum sentencing power was not enough.
The woman’s father, aged 69, who cannot be named to protect his daughter’s identity, told the court it had been a subdued Christmas dinner, the first since the loss of his wife.
“We were about to sit down for our meal when one of my daughters got a text with the video,” he said. “She was very upset but they managed to keep what it was about from the children.
“Some people didn’t eat any Christmas dinner after that.”