A higgler who tricked a woman into believing he was a photographer at a modelling agency and took nude pictures of her, then distributed them when she wouldn't have sex with him, was sent to prison yesterday.

The man, Dale Stavrose, also called 'Tony Burke', 32, from a Monroe Road, Kingston 6 address, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.

The matter involved accounts clerk Nicole Davis, 27, from Cumberland, St Catherine.

Allegations are that Stavrose told Davis that he was a photographer at a modelling agency when he met her about six years ago. For this reason, she allowed him to take several photographs of her, some of which were nude because she was interested in modelling.

blow up the photos

Subsequently, Stavrose began asking Davis for sexual favours which she refused. This allegedly led him to blow up the photos and distribute them on the plaza where she worked. Consequently, this resulted in her leaving her job.

Further allegations are that a few years later, Davis saw Stavrose after getting another job in the same vicinity. She told the court that Stavrose began stalking her. "Everywhere I go he is there," she said.

In his defence, Stavrose told the court that he and Davis were previously in a sexual relationship and that he had purchased several things for her.

On Monday, March 21, about 7:45 p.m., she was on her way to work when she saw Stavrose standing at the entrance to the plaza where she worked. When she walked pass him, he allegedly told her to give him her BlackBerry phone as repayment for the things he had allegedly bought for her in the past. When she refused, he allegedly threw a bucket of faeces on her.

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In court, after admitting that he threw a bucket of urine on Davis, Stavrose was found guilty of assault occasioning bodily harm and assault at common law.

However, Davis told the court that it was faeces that Stavrose has thrown on her.

When the sentence was handed down, Stavrose started to behave in a boisterous manner, bringing shock to the faces of persons inside the courthouse.

When the police tried to whisk him away to the holding cell he shouted, "Nuh drag mi man, yuh nuh see say she lick mi ina mi eye, mek mi cyan see outa mi eye."

Presiding judge Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey ordered Davis to return to court on August 31 to answer to the charge of assault.

Earlier, Stavrose who has faced the court before, told the court that he was assaulted by Davis who had broken his glasses. This brought laughter to the court as RM Pusey asked, "Mr Stavrose, is when since yuh start wear glasses?"