A lecturer has been jailed after threatening not to submit a student’s coursework – unless he sent him a naked photo.
Lewis Bryan, 29, also sent a series of indecent Snapchat messages to two former students.
He was this week sentenced to 27 months in prison at Dundee Sheriff Court and was placed on the sex offenders’ register for a decade.
Bryan was found guilty after a trial in February of two charges of coercing the men to look at sexual images and one charge of attempted extortion between January 2017 and March 2018.
As he was led away to the cells, he said: “I didn’t do it.”
The court heard Bryan tried to blackmail one of the men by saying he wouldn’t send coursework to the SQA unless he sent him indecent material.
He committed the offences while he taught the men – then teenage school pupils – at Dundee and Angus College’s Arbroath campus.
The court heard one of the men felt “traumatised”.
Jurors were also shown a screenshot selfie of Bryan with the caption “send nudes (obviously)” which one of the victims said Bryan sent to him while he was teaching.
One of the victims said previously that Bryan, of Arbroath, sent lewd images with a partner, using emojis to cover his genitals.
The ex-pupil revealed he was able to identify Bryan in some photos by tattoos on his body from TV series Twin Peaks and video game BioShock that he had shown students in class.
Bryan, who was working as a chef before being jailed, returned to the dock for sentencing.
Paul Parker-Smith, defending, said Bryan continued to deny his guilt.
Sheriff Carmichael said: “These charges are so serious that there’s no option but to impose a custodial sentence.”
Dundee and Angus College said after Bryan’s conviction that he had left in 2018 and declined to comment further.
