For the threat, Gabriel Leong Yew Choong, 28, was jailed for six months.
THEY had broken up after just four months together, and Gabriel Leong Yew Choong wanted his former girlfriend back.
For the threat, Gabriel Leong Yew Choong, 28, was jailed for six months.
After they split in September 2002, he telephoned her, e-mailed her and pestered her with text messages. She neither answered his calls nor replied to his messages.
After her repeated rebuffs, Leong promised her a birthday gift she would not forget.
In October that year, she received two e-mail messages from him, with attachments: two pictures of her in the nude that she'd once let him take after they'd had sex.
One was a shot of her, topless and smiling at the camera. The other showed her putting her clothes back on.
The titles were innocuous - Happy 20th Birthday and Screensaver For The Office. But his message was chilling.
Leong, now 28 and a diploma student in a private school, had told the woman, now 22, that he would circulate the pictures to her friends if she continued ignoring him.
Yesterday, he admitted sending her the threatening e-mail messages on Oct 28 and 30, 2002, and was jailed for six months.
Deputy Public Prosector Daphne Chang told a district court that the pair had met in May 2002 and broke up that September. Despite the calls and messages, it was not until the alarming pictures that she went to the police.
In his mitigation, Leong's lawyer, Mr David Rasif, told the court that Leong was trying to contact her because he discovered after they broke up that two watches his grandmother gave him were gone.
But she didn't reply and in 'a fit of anger', he e-mailed the pictures to her.
'He did not upload the pictures to any website and only the victim has seen them,' said the lawyer, adding that Leong was remorseful.
He could have been jailed up to seven years and fined.
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