A MAN who threatened to show a private explicit photo to a woman’s family after she refused to repay a loan has been described as “vindictive and malicious”.

Bradford Crown Court heard that Moin Uddin, 25, embarked on an aggressive period of harassment after showering a girlfriend with gifts during a brief relationship in the autumn of 2021, and lending her around £2,000.

Prosecutor Jemima Stephenson told the court that he demanded the money back when they split up, as well as the cost of the various gifts he had decided to buy her.

The full amount he wanted repaid was £4,500.

When the woman, from the Bradford district, said she could not pay he began harassing her with phone calls and text messages, and threatened to put an explicit image of her on social media by creating fake accounts, and to contact her family when she blocked him.

Miss Stephenson said: “Due to her family’s cultural and religious beliefs [the victim] was particularly worried that the defendant would disclose the photographs.”

The woman gathered what money she could and paid Uddin £250, which pacified him, but in the summer of 2022 he made aggressive calls demanding the rest, He then created a fake Facebook page and put an image on it, which he then photographed and threatened to publish.

He also turned up at the woman’s home where he threatened to show her family the picture. The police were called but Uddin left before they arrived.

He later set up a false social media account purporting to be his former girlfriend that stated: “Follow me to see naked pictures.”

Uddin, of Glenby Way, Oldham, was arrested in November 2022 and initially denied what he had done but later admitted he had been messaging her to get the money back.

He also accepted he had set up fake social media accounts. He pleaded guilty two days before the case was to go to trial.

Mitigating, Jonathan Turner said Uddin was just 22 at the time and in his first relationship. He said he acted “completely inappropriately” and that it had taken him a long time to accept his behaviour was wrong.

He added: “He was simply naïve and immature at the time.”

Commenting on the case Mrs Recorder Taryn Turner described Uddin’s harassment as “particularly vindictive and malicious” and that it had been planned “with the clear intent of maximising [her] distress and humiliation”.

Describing it as “a particularly mean, callous and wicked offence” she sentenced Uddin to eight months in prison suspended for 12 months, 40 rehabilitation activity requirement days, and ordered him to undertake 100 hours of unpaid work.

She also imposed a five-year restraining order upon him.