A scorned husband has admitted posting raunchy pictures of his wife in her underwear all over their local town after the relationship ended.
Ian Cuthbert, 46, posted fliers on a school noticeboard, trees and lamppost which included a picture of 34-year-old Alison Kidd and the caption “Lock Up Your Husbands”.
“Married and committing adultery within days” it added.
Cuthbert posted them in an “extreme state” last September – just six months after the couple wed – after hearing
allegations that his wife had been in a relationship with another man, a court heard.
Staff arriving at the school on the outskirts of Edinburgh collected them before the children became aware of them.
Nursery assistant Alison was told about the posters by friends and contacted police.
Yesterday, a sheriff told twisted Cuthbert, of Broxburn, West Lothian, that what he had done was “really a form of assault”.
Cuthbert pleaded guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court to distributing offensive pictures of his wife.
Ms Kidd told the Edinburgh Evening News she has been left “shocked and embarrassed” by the incident.
She said Cuthbert made up the false accusations after she told him she was leaving him and described him as a “nasty piece of work.”
The couple are now in the process of getting a divorce, the paper reports.
The IT boss and Alison wed last March at Houston House Hotel, in Uphall, West Lothian. Neighbours in the quiet cul-de-sac where they lived said their break-up was common knowledge.
One resident said: “Everyone’s been gossiping about it. They only got married recently, then the next thing we heard they’d had a big barney and Alison moved out.
“We heard Ian had posted pictures of her in her knickers.”
Another neighbour added: “One minute Alison was living in the house and the next she’d vanished.
“We heard about the photos Ian posted. It seems a bit irrational. It’s all rather mysterious.
“I don’t know Ian that well – I just see him in the street from time to time. He wears a cowboy hat and always has his dog with him.”
Cuthbert was not available for comment after his court appearance. Sheriff Isabella McColl called for reports and deferred until next month.