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BreakingNews.ie
6 days ago
- BreakingNews.ie
Pensioner blackmailed woman with sex pics recovered from her old phone
A Dublin pensioner has admitted recovering pictures of a woman engaged in sexual acts from her old phone to "blackmail" her years later. Anthony Nolan, 84, of Richmond Road, Fairview, was charged with harassment from May 8, 2021, until May 10, 2022, under section 10 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act. He pleaded guilty when he appeared at Dublin District Court before Judge Michele Finan on Monday. The court heard the woman, who was known to the accused, gifted the pensioner her old phone in 2009, which she had used for four years. Three years later, Nolan discovered some content on the phone, including personal messages and "photos showing the injured party in sexual activities and he attempted to blackmail her in relation to that". Judge Finan noted that defence solicitor Andrew Molony said his client was attending psychiatric treatment and he needed time to obtain a report. The woman was not present for the hearing. Adjourning sentencing until September, Judge Finan requested that a victim impact statement be prepared for the next hearing. She also extended legal aid for a psychiatric report on Nolan. The accused was remanded on continuing bail and was not required to testify. It followed a preliminary hearing in April to consider whether the case should be sent up to the Circuit Court, which has wider sentencing powers. Jurisdiction was accepted, keeping it in the District Court. The judge had heard that before the victim gave Nolan the phone, "she wiped the phone clean of personal data". The evidence against him also included an accusation that, having discovered the messages and images, he refused to return the phone. Judge Finan heard the complainant tried to "block" him, but he continued to harass her by electronic means and with messages.
Irish Times
6 days ago
- Irish Times
Man (84) admits using sex photos recovered from woman's old phone to harass her
A Dublin pensioner has admitted recovering pictures of a woman engaged in sexual acts from her old phone to 'blackmail' her years later. Anthony Nolan (84), of Richmond Road, Fairview, was charged with harassment from May 8th, 2021, until May 10th, 2022, under section 10 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act. He pleaded guilty when he appeared at Dublin District Court before Judge Michele Finan on Monday. The court heard the woman, who was known to the accused, gifted the pensioner her old phone in 2009, which she had used for four years. READ MORE Three years later, Nolan discovered some content on the phone, including personal messages and 'photos showing the injured party in sexual activities and he attempted to blackmail her in relation to that'. Judge Finan noted that defence solicitor Andrew Molony said his client was attending psychiatric treatment and he needed time to obtain a report. The woman was not present for the hearing. Adjourning sentencing until September, Judge Finan requested that a victim impact statement be prepared for the next hearing. She also extended legal aid for a psychiatric report on Nolan. The accused was remanded on continuing bail and was not required to testify. It followed a preliminary hearing in April to consider whether the case should be sent up to the Circuit Court, which has wider sentencing powers. Jurisdiction was accepted, keeping it in the District Court. The judge had heard that before the victim gave Nolan the phone, 'she wiped the phone clean of personal data.' The evidence against him also included an accusation that, having discovered the messages and images, he refused to return the phone. Judge Finan heard the complainant tried to block him, but he continued to harass her by electronic means and with messages.
Irish Times
6 days ago
- Irish Times
Man (84) who used sex photos recovered from her woman's phone to harass her to be sentenced
A Dublin pensioner has admitted recovering pictures of a woman engaged in sexual acts from her old phone to 'blackmail' her years later. Anthony Nolan (84), of Richmond Road, Fairview, was charged with harassment from May 8th, 2021, until May 10th, 2022, under section 10 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act. He pleaded guilty when he appeared at Dublin District Court before Judge Michele Finan on Monday. The court heard the woman, who was known to the accused, gifted the pensioner her old phone in 2009, which she had used for four years. READ MORE Three years later, Nolan discovered some content on the phone, including personal messages and 'photos showing the injured party in sexual activities and he attempted to blackmail her in relation to that'. Judge Finan noted that defence solicitor Andrew Molony said his client was attending psychiatric treatment and he needed time to obtain a report. The woman was not present for the hearing. Adjourning sentencing until September, Judge Finan requested that a victim impact statement be prepared for the next hearing. She also extended legal aid for a psychiatric report on Nolan. The accused was remanded on continuing bail and was not required to testify. It followed a preliminary hearing in April to consider whether the case should be sent up to the Circuit Court, which has wider sentencing powers. Jurisdiction was accepted, keeping it in the District Court. The judge had heard that before the victim gave Nolan the phone, 'she wiped the phone clean of personal data.' The evidence against him also included an accusation that, having discovered the messages and images, he refused to return the phone. Judge Finan heard the complainant tried to block him, but he continued to harass her by electronic means and with messages.
Daily Mail
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Christine Lampard admits she is worried her and Frank's young children might be watching sexual content online and confesses it's 'extremely unsettling'
has admitted she is worried her young children are watching sexual content online. The Loose Women presenter, 46, shares both a daughter and a son- Patricia, six, and Freddie, three - with her football legend husband Frank after marrying the former England captain in 2015. And now she has reflected on how dramatically things have changed since she was a schoolgirl in the 80s. Growing up the height of scandal was a racy book being passed around the classroom whereas now young people have access to pornography. Opening up about her fears as a modern mum on the Loose Women podcast, she said: 'I remember being at school and the Judy Blume books doing the rounds. And it was probably - reading it back now - hardly even remotely dirty. But it was to us. 'And it was about sexual relations and relationships and things that you wouldn't have been talking to your parents about.' Christine added that the thought of today's children being exposed to explicit pornography at the swipe of a screen leaves her extremely unsettled. 'You think of how young people have everything at the touch of their phone,' the presenter said. 'They're watching very potentially explicit pornographic detail. That does scare me. 'A lot of young people think they know more than their parents do anyway because it's all on their phones.' The Northern Irish host, who is also step-mum to Frank's daughters Luna, 18, and Isla, 17, from his previous relationship with Elen Rivas, said they always tried to create a safe and open environment when it came to talking about relationships and sex at home. 'With Frank's older girls, our approach was always: if they talk to us, of course, we would talk. But we also approached it all with a slight sense of humour,' she explained. 'Sometimes that wasn't appropriate, but they knew that was a safe space. They did feel they could open up because the reaction was never gonna be, "Oh my god, that's terrible!" We were never gonna do the shock thing.' Christine, who grew up attending an all-girls school, also noted that teaching kids about sex and relationships is vastly different today and said parents have to make an effort to stay aligned with what children are learning at school. 'You have to know those things are happening so you're in line with the information that's going into their heads,' she said. 'I think naturally those questions come. I mean, my two - and they're really young - are already asking about where babies come from.' While she's happy to keep things innocent for now - especially when it comes to language - she admitted there's a part of her that wants to hit pause on growing up. 'How long do you keep going with the kind of nicknames that you have for body parts?' she mused. 'Frank says dinkle for the old willy and just boobies - you know, old school.' When her podcast co-presenter Coleen Nolan joked that 'Frank needs to grow up,' Christina, laughing, responded: 'Dinkle's cute though, isn't it? When we were potty training Freddie, that was the terminology. 'So Freddie would say, "Your dinkle does this, then you have to wash your dinkle".' Christine added she's acutely aware of the need for responsibility when the time comes. 'When it comes to girls, I have friends who got their periods at ten, eleven, twelve,' she said. 'You're still a very young girl at that stage, but yet your body physically is turning into a woman. So with that comes the huge responsibility of knowing what it means.' She added: 'I think you kind of know the time. You do. And your child might make it slightly easier for you by actually broaching it. And if they don't, just make it a very safe feeling space if they do want to.' It comes after Christine revealed the reason her husband often used to cancel their dates at the start of their relationship. They are approaching their 10th wedding anniversary this year and the TV star has now opened up about their early dating days where things weren't all plain sailing. When they met he was busy playing for Chelsea but used to cancel dates with her when the team didn't win. She told The Sun: 'When he was playing, he used to cancel nights out when Chelsea didn't win. Thankfully, it didn't happen that often, as luckily, Chelsea won a lot!' 'It was actually alright. He would be annoyed just because he takes it all so seriously!' She added that football was a whole new world for her and didn't understand why it was such a big deal. Christine explained: 'I went to an all-girls' school, I didn't have brothers. Football just wasn't a thing. I couldn't have cared less. And then, suddenly, I started to care. 'The more I went to the games, the more I got it. I thought, "Oh my god, I see why people are into this. There is something magical about it".' Frank recently revealed the secret to his happy marriage with his beloved wife Christine. He told the Mirror: 'What keeps me and Christine going is we're there to support each other and we make each other laugh. We have a similar sense of humour. 'Christine's quite sharp and we're normally thinking the same thing, so the same situations make us laugh - I think laughing together is important for a happy marriage.' Frank was introduced to his wife at The Pride Of Britain Awards by fellow TV presenter Piers Morgan in 2009.
Japan Times
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Japan Times
Regulation of online ads with sexual content draws mixed views in Japan
Opinions are split in Japan over whether to regulate sexual content in online advertisements as advocates seek measures to better protect children while critics worry about possible infringements on freedom of expression. The government has shown its intention to address the situation in which ads that are sexual in nature are often found posted on websites that may be seen by children. Orangepage, which publishes cooking and other magazines, has received criticism over such ads being displayed on its website. "Ads that eluded the screening and filtering by advertising networks have been displayed," the Tokyo-based company explained as it extended an apology on social media platform X in March. Lawmakers such as Takae Ito of the opposition Democratic Party for the People and Eriko Yamatani of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in March requested the government to address the issue quickly at a meeting of the Upper House Budget Committee as well as on several other occasions. Junko Mihara, the minister in charge of children-related policies, has responded by saying the government will discuss the matter and present a rough outline of measures by summer. The government promotes the use of parental controls to manage children's exposure to online content and filtering to restrict access to websites seen as harmful. But these have not been adequate to protect children from inappropriate online ads. Behind the spread of such ads is a new system that matches advertisers with ad slots. In conventional contracts with advertisers, media companies place ads that have gone through screening. But the new system, which has become popular, allows advertisers to buy slots instantly by placing bids based on the attributes and preferences of expected viewers, and ads are displayed without going through checks. Yuzuru Honda, president of FreakOut, which introduced the system to Japan, said that inappropriate ads have increased as the result of media companies prioritizing revenue over content. Warning that Japan is in a "lawless" state in this area, Honda said, "Self-regulation and guidelines are too weak." He stressed the need for legal regulations. But critics have voiced concern that stricter rules could lead to infringements on the freedom of expression, which is guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution. The law to secure an appropriate environment for young people's safe use of the internet lists content that incites people to crime and indecent depictions as examples of what it calls harmful information. But the sixth basic plan to improve the online environment for young people, which the government decided in September last year under the law, calls for full respect for the Constitution. In light of the Constitution, "national administrative bodies and others must not interfere in the judgment of harmful information," the basic plan said. Upper House member Taro Yamada of the LDP expressed his opposition to proposed stricter regulations in a post on X in March. "If you seek laws and administrative regulations because you are uncomfortable (with some ads) and do not want to show them (to children), that would lead to a complete denial of freedom of expression," Yamada said. The DPP's Ito said, "Freedom of expression is important, but it cannot be a reason for not addressing erotic ads." She called for rules on ensuring that expressions on internet ads are appropriate, saying "We should be aware that the internet is already a mass medium."
