A MAN who used his mobile phone to send a video of himself engaged in a solo sex act was jailed for five months today.
Ian Purvis, 21, claimed a teenage girl had asked for the footage and he had sent it to stop her "pestering" him.
But after hearing from the girl, a sheriff rejected Purvis' story.
Purvis, of Westfield Road, Edinburgh, told the city's sheriff cour
t he had received phone calls and text messages from the girl around July 17 last year.
He said: "She was going to keep phoning and texting me until I had sent her the message. It was strange to me that she requested it."
Purvis claimed that he did it because she kept phoning and "pestering" him and told the court: "She did ask for it."
But the 17-year-old denied his claims during a hearing of evidence at the court.
Sheriff Derrick McIntyre said: "This is purely a matter of credibility and reliability over whether I believe the accused or the girl - and I don't believe the accused."
Purvis had earlier admitted to sending an obscene video text message.
Purvis, who has a previous conviction for sex with an underage girl, had his name added to the sex offenders' register for the next seven years.
Sheriff McIntryre told him if he had not pleaded guilty the jail term would have been the maximum possible - six months.
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