A creep sent a personal trainer a video of him performing a solo sex act after he signed up to her boot camp.
Michael Renshaw sent the woman the sordid recording after he joined her personal training regime last year.
Renshaw, 30, also admitted making sexual noises - including calling out the woman’s name - during the making of the recording.
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Edinburgh Sheriff Court was told Renshaw managed to secure employment at the victim’s place of work before sending an email to her with the video as an attachment.
Renshaw admitted to sending the recording of himself to the woman when he appeared in the dock at the capital court today.
The court heard Renshaw signed up for the woman’s personal training course in 2019 and the pair also linked up on social media.
The prosecution said the woman received the disgusting email with an attached file from Renshaw at around 10.45am on May 19 last year.
The fiscal said: “On clicking this she observed a single video and from the thumbnail she observed that there was a male who was naked and was holding his erect penis.”
The shocked victim was said to have immediately contacted the police and Renshaw was arrested at his home in the Leith area of the capital at around 6.45pm that evening.
The court was told Renshaw admitted during a subsequent police interview to sending the email which showed him masturbating.
Solicitor Rebecca Weissgerber, defending, said her client was currently unemployed and lived with his mother and brother.
The lawyer said Renshaw was “embarrassed and ashamed” at sending the video and “thoroughly regrets his behaviour”.
The brief added: “[The woman] was a personal trainer and Mr Renshaw had joined her boot camp.
“He became attached to her and things became unacceptable and he fully accepts that.”
The court was also told Renshaw had “cooperated fully with the police and also with the court procedure”.
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Sheriff Adrian Fraser said: “Given the nature of the charge the court will have to obtain social work reports.”
The sheriff released Renshaw on bail and placed him on the Sex Offenders Register for a term still to be decided.
Sentence was deferred to next year.
Renshaw pleaded guilty to directing a verbal sexual communication to a woman for the purposes of obtaining sexual gratification and intentionally causing her to look at a sexual image for the purposes of obtaining sexual gratification by sending an email that included a video of him masturbating and making sexual noises and saying her name on May 19 last year.
