Jonathan Playfair's Appeal Court bid to have sentence cut fails as judge lambasts his “callous and calculating” behaviour
A Belfast man jailed for sextortion offences against three schoolgirls sent a video to one victim’s mother in an act of “incomprehensible wickedness”, the Court of Appeal ruled today.
In May last year Playfair, 24, received an extended sentence of six years imprisonment and a further four years on licence after pleading guilty to blackmail, possessing indecent photographs and videos of a child, inciting a child into sexual activity and disclosing private sexual images and films. He also arranged a meeting with a 13-year-old girl at a leisure centre where they had sex in one of the rooms. During a subsequent incident he covertly recorded her performing a sexual act on him.
Rejecting all grounds of challenge, he highlighted the level of planning, targeting and grooming of three separate, vulnerable victims subjected to coercive and controlling behaviour. “His response was that he did not care. His subsequent actions were clearly intended to cause her maximum distress and humiliation.”
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