A woman has avoided jail after pleading guilty to harassment and disclosing private sexual photographs without consent.

Ellie Melaugh, 20, of Shroffold Road, Bromley, pleaded guilty to the harassment of a man and two women in Glebe Court, London Road, Mitcham, including distributing indecent photographs of the man.

So-called 'revenge porn' is the publication of explicit material portraying someone who has not consented for it to be shared.

The law now makes it illegal to disclose a "private sexual photograph or film" without the consent of the person depicted in the content, and with the intent to cause them distress.

According to the charges, Melaugh made numerous hostile phone calls to the man between May and July last year, including threatening to burn his house down and assault him, as well as cancelling internet orders and his mobile phone contract.

She also posted indecent images and “private sexual photographs” of him on social media along with his personal details without his consent.

Melaugh admitted threatening to assault a woman, burn her grandmother’s house down and sexually assault her daughter, and telling another woman she had told social services to take her daughter away and that she hopes her daughter dies of cancer.

Melaugh was sentenced at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, March 23, after pleading guilty to the offences, all of which took place between May 14, 2015 and July 2, 2015.

She was given a 12 week sentence suspended for 12 months as well as a restraining order banning her from contacting her three victims or from going to Glebe Court in London Road, Mitcham.

She was also ordered to pay costs of £480.