Text as at 26 April 2026

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53T Threat to distribute intimate image

(1)A person (A) commits an offence if—

(a)A makes to another person (B) a threat to distribute an intimate image depicting B or another person; and

(b)the distribution of the image would be contrary to community standards of acceptable conduct; and

(c)A intends that B will believe, or believes that B will probably believe, that A will carry out the threat.

(2)A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable to 3 years imprisonment.

(3)For the purposes of subsection (1), a threat may be—

(a)made by words or conduct; and

(b)explicit or implicit.

A mistaken but honest belief that the distribution of the intimate image would not be contrary to community standards of acceptable conduct is not a defence to this offence—see section 53V.