Prosecutors told to do more to strip ‘revenge porn’ abusers of victim images

In one case, a man was given a suspended sentence but no deprivation order, meaning police were powerless to wipe his phone of his victim’s intimate imnages. Photograph: WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images

The Crown Prosecution Service is to update its guidance on so-called “revenge porn” crimes to stop perpetrators being allowed to keep explicit photos of their victims.

The Observer revealed last month that magistrates courts were routinely failing to make orders for the deletion of content linked to intimate-image abuse cases – and that prosecutors were failing to request them.