A businessman has narrowly escaped jail after he posted intimate pictures of his mistress on a secret Instagram site when they split.
Hugh Fleetwood, 67, who runs a specialist furniture business, had a five-year affair with the woman behind his wife’s back.
But when the mistress, who can’t be named for legal reasons, ended the relationship Fleetwood began a campaign of harassment against her, posting intimate pictures, including ones of her performing a sex act on him and the pair naked together in a massage parlour, on social media.
Magistrates in Liverpool were told that Fleetwood’s ‘successful life’ had imploded because of his ‘utterly unforgivable’ behaviour.
The court heard his wife of 25 years had left him, his two children are barely speaking to him and he has been forced to sell his luxury home, on the Wirral, Merseyside, and his profitable business to pay for their divorce.
