Is this revenge on the OW fair or not?

The sentence might seem harsh, but I actually think it's appropriate. Men are sentenced far too leniently for similar crimes - push for harsher sentences for them, not less for women. It was premeditated, malicious and she showed no remorse.
Inexcusable thing to do, and IMO mum and sister should have been sentenced too. A serving police officer!
And as usual, the man gets off scot-free from the chaos and trauma he put his teenagers through.

The CPS guidance is a 6 month term for sharing nude photos without consent. I can't find a record of any man being jailed for 3 years for a similar offence, and think how many men share photos without consent. She is being treated harshly because she is a woman.

@Greenfinch7 She was charged with Disclosing Private Images

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/magistrates-court/item/disclosing-private-sexual-images/

Given those guidelines, I think the sentencing was fair.

What she did was wrong, obviously. That said a custodial sentence, why?! She isn't a threat or risk to anyone.

Our judicial system is fucked. They are releasing criminals early yet lock up someone like this? Community service would surely have sufficed.

Same judge....
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/sex-offender-explicit-messages-girl-9641254

This. The affair ended years ago, and the marriage appears to have withstood it. Her family should have helped her deal with whatever feelings she had rather than encouraging her and possibly giving her more information than she should have known.

Also she didn't just share explicit photographs which is illegal on its own. There were various aggravating factors. She posted abusive messages about the OW on an online profile promoting OWs husband's business. She then set up a profile on an escort site using the photographs and put the husbands phone number as the contact. She also sent abusive messages to the OWs daughter.

She was determined to hurt other innocent parties.

I agree with all the comments that the sentence is too much, she's not violent and prisons are over crowded. What they did was wrong and crazy though.

Cheating isn't illegal, and if it was, it would be the man sent to prison as he was the main perpetrator of that 'crime'.

A much harsher sentence than any man would or has received, merely because she showed little remorse?

Two separate charges have added up to the three years given.

We shouldn't be shortening other sentences because rapists get off too lightly, we should be using other proportional sentences to prove rapists deserve longer.

Unless you have a comparable sentence i.e a man posting makes photos of his ex, harassing her family and abusive her sister, you can't draw anything from the perpetrator's sex.

Is it clear the ow knew the guy had a partner?

I don't think what she did was right or fair but I do think a three year jail sentence is pretty outrageous. She could have glassed her in a pub and got less.

YABVU

She should have gotten longer! She found out about the affair years after it happened and waited longer to take “revenge”. D

Her father chose to cheat, chose to cause problems in the marriage. Putting the OW’s photos on an escort site is sick and disturbing. It’s choosing to put her in a dangerous situation for something that happened a decade ago.

Too many women put more blame on the OW than the actual husband.

Anyone who thinks this was appropriate needs therapy. I do hope her sister is done as a PC. Not the type of person I’d want to encounter.

This....spot on.

It's not terrifying. I don't believe people should get away with this sort of behaviour.

amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/13/eight-in-10-convicted-in-uk-over-child-abuse-images-avoid-prison-nca-says amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/13/eight-in-10-convicted-in-uk-over-child-abuse-images-avoid-prison-nca-says]]]]

Thats 80% who walk free who make it to court. 50% don’t even make it that far.

No excuse for this. Truly vile and unhinged thing to do. Don't care if its a man sharing images, or a woman, it's a crime and blaming the victim isn't an excuse.

A much harsher sentence than any man would or has received, merely because she showed little remorse?
You have to wonder if this was handed down by an old misogynistic judge, who has little idea or training regarding the utter psychological life long impact an affair can have not only on the innocent wife but children of which she was when her father betrayed his wife and family.

They are the real victims in all this along with OW's family.

The irony of the OW's ..."I find it hard to believe a woman would do this to another woman. To say I feel violated is an understatement"

No of course not. Thank goodness I’m not mentally and emotionally unstable like this unfortunate woman.

It’s two sentences for two crimes.

Maybe if she had shown some remorse they would have run concurrently not consecutively.

No she isn't.
She got a long prison term because she showed absolutely no remorse whatsoever. This wasn't a spur of the moment thing done in rage, this was 12 years later and was premeditated.

They might as well get rid of police and courts and just get a bunch of fishwives to give 'justice'

3 years is crazy

Yes, the judge commented on this and she had shown no remorse whatsover, which is why she got the sentence she did.

Judge Alexander Menary said Brown's actions had been "vindictive, selfish and vengeful" and told her that she had "relished the obvious discomfort" the offending had caused.

The judge said her decision to initially deny the offences had been an "act of brinkmanship", forcing the victim and her husband to go through the stress of giving evidence at trial.

Sentencing her to consecutive terms of two and one years for each of the charges, Judge Menary told her: "Your lack of remorse is staggering."

They also attempted to wreck the victims husbands business, he was totally innocent in all of this.
I must be getting really old but just can't get over the need for women to constantly share intimate photos, it is possible to have a relationship without taking pictures of your bits!

Totally agree with this. Spot on. Said it better than I did!

It's obviously very wrong and illegal, but yes, I'd have been tempted.