A trainee solicitor who sent unwanted explicit messages and an image to a woman he was representing at court has been jailed.
Mohammed Ahmed, from Birmingham, had added one of his female clients on social media claiming he had done so accidentally. He then sent the woman explicit messages and the explicit image of himself - known as cyberflashing - before she reported the matter to West Midlands Police.
Ahmed, 28, was charged with sending the unsolicited explicit image to cause alarm, distress or humiliation. He admitted the offence when he appeared last month at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court and was jailed for five months and placed on the sexual offender register for five years.
It is unclear at this stage whether Ahmed ever qualified to be a solicitor and whether he was still working in the profession at the time of his conviction.
Following the sentencing, police staff investigator Katie Evers, of West Midlands Police Public Protection Unit, said: ‘Ahmed abused his position of trust and sent explicit messages and an image to someone he was supposed to be helping. The woman in this case did exactly the right thing and came forward and reported his crimes. I want to thank her for her bravery in making the report so we could stop him abusing his position of trust to any other women.’
