A NEWTOWN woman who posted explicit pictures of a man on Facebook has had a five-year restraining order imposed on her.

Francesca Challenor uploaded a still image of the man’s private parts and then a screenshot of a video depicting this.

She also edited a series of messages between her and the man, which were slanted to make it appear that she was being harassed by him.

Challenor, 30, of Violet Close, Newtown, had initially denied a charge of publishing private sexual photographs with intent to cause distress and was due to go on trial at Mold Crown Court.

But she pleaded guilty to an alternative charge of threatening behaviour towards her victim on January 24 this year.

The court heard Challenor had “vulnerability issues”.

Prosecuting barrister John Philpotts said she named her victim in the posts and provided a link to a newspaper article reporting a conviction against him many years before.

The complainant had deleted her Facebook account in the past, but he was told about the offending material by his wife.

In a victim impact statement read to the court he said he was “distressed” about the posting.

Challenor admitted using her phone to post on her Facebook profile, but told police she had “scribbled out” the still image of the victim’s penis and the image was partly covered by the computer cursor in the screen shot.

Defence barrister Maria Masselis said: “She (Challenor) has had the good sense to enter a guilty plea to an alternative offence.

“She says she was the subject of a campaign of harassment at his (the complainant’s) hands.”

The barrister said Challenor suffered from mental health issues, including PTSD.

Judge Parry ordered she complete 25 rehabilitation days and made the restraining order preventing her from publishing any material regarding the defendant.

He told her: “You’ve acted out of character and I suspect you wouldn’t have done it if it was not for your vulnerabilities.

“Whatever happened between you and the complainant you now know that was the wrong way to go about it and material like that can’t be gratuitously uploaded for the public to see.”