Our thanks to Martin for this. Excerpts:

Men and women who humiliate ex-lovers and other victims with revenge porn may be spared jail even in the most serious cases, under sentencing guidelines proposed yesterday.

Those who post sexual images online to cause their victim major distress can escape with just a community punishment, they suggest.

Only if the victim is considered ‘vulnerable’ will there be a prison sentence, under new court rules.

Of course we all know what the final sentence will mean in practise, don’t we? In plain English:

Only if the victim is female, and the person posting revenge porn a man, will there be a prison sentence, under new court rules.

Further excerpts:

Kathy Gyngell, a fellow of the right-wing Centre for Policy Studies think tank, said: ‘To give an offender easier treatment because a judge thinks the victim can look after herself or himself is wrong.’…

Criminologist Dr David Green, director of the Civitas think tank, said: ‘We should go back to the basic principle that the punishment is the same whatever the characteristics of the victim.’

‘We should go back to the basic principle…’? David Green must be joking. That basic principle has never existed in the UK, when it comes to the differential sentencing of men and women.

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