Locations
Railway Street, Braintree, Essex, CM7
Description
Tyler, of Railway Street, Braintree, was arrested by officers in May last year after a woman reported an intimate photo of herself had been posted on an online forum without her knowledge or consent.
Detectives immediately launched an investigation, and their enquiries revealed several other women’s images, many manipulated or created using deep fake technology, had also been uploaded to the site.
Enquiries lead detectives to a specific user who had made 173 posts between March 2023 and May 2024. Many of the posts contained images which had been taken from the victims’ social media pages and then deep faked to make the women appear as though they were naked.
Other intimate images uploaded onto the site by the user were not deep faked, but had been shared without the owners’ knowledge or consent.
The user’s account was linked to Tyler and he was arrested. He made no comment during interview, but following the thorough investigation charges were authorised by the CPS.
Tyler was charged with 15 counts of sharing a photograph or film of a person in an intimate state for the purpose of sexual gratification and 18 counts of harassment without violence.
He pleaded guilty to all 33 charges when he previously appeared at Colchester Magistrates Court.
He sentenced him to a total of five years in prison, he was placed on the sex offenders' register and given an indefinite restraining order against his victims.