A former British paratrooper was sentenced to five years in prison for creating and posting deepfake pornographic profiles of four women. Jonathan Bates, 54, used doctored images on websites offering sexual services, causing significant distress to his victims.
A former paratrooper who retrained as a teacher posted deepfake porn profiles of four women, a court heard. Jonathan Bates, 54, was jailed yesterday for five years after putting up doctored images on websites offering sexual services. One horrifying incident resulted in a man appearing at a schoolteacher’s home after believing she had cancelled a date arranged online. In fact, it was revealed he had been speaking with Bates.
His victims, forced to explain to friends and employers why they appeared on pornographic websites, tracked him down themselves when police failed to do so. Father-of-one Bates, who served for 15 years and was awarded the Northern Ireland medal, completed an educational conversion course in 2012 and began a job at a primary school in Canterbury, Kent. He then targeted his teaching mentor, who became aware when a friend revealed to her in 2015 there were explicit sex images of her online, Truro Crown Court was told. Stuart Allen, prosecuting, said: ‘The fake accounts show images of her face on the bodies of other women involved in pornographic acts and are accompanied by disgusting and explicit language about what is being done.’ The teacher asked people to get in touch with information about her lost cat – but those who searched for her online were confronted by vile doctored images. The horrified teacher reported the sites to Kent Police but the force was unable to identify the perpetrator. The school’s safeguarding lead Kirsty Pellant, 44, then discovered sick doctored images of herself on porn sites but again detectives could not link them to the former soldier. Former paratrooper Jonathan Bates (pictured), 54, posted deepfake porn profiles of four women, a court heard One of Jonathan Bates' victims, Kirsty Pellant, who discovered sick doctored images of herself on porn sites On Valentine’s Day in 2017, a man who had tried to arrange a date with her after seeing her on a porn site arrived at her hom
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