sharing intimate photos (FOI Ref: 605/26)
Request
Request 1
- Please provide the number of intimate image abuse / 'revenge porn' offences reported to the police force each year between:
o 1st July 2021- 30th June 2022
o 1st July 2022-30th June 2023
o 1st July 2023-30th June 2024
o 1st July 2024-30th June 2025
o 1st July 2025-28th February 2026
Note: by intimate image abuse / 'revenge porn', we mean sharing or threatening to share private sexual photographs or films without the consent of the person or people depicted, which for cases from 31st January 2024 is a criminal offence under section 66(b) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, as inserted by the Online Safety Act 2003.
For cases prior to 31 January 2024, offences were convicted under section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 and included a requirement for intent to cause distress. All the above includes 'deepfakes', which are digitally created and altered content in the form of fake images, videos and audio recordings.
- Please provide the number of how many of the intimate image abuse / 'revenge porn' offences reported to the police each year between 1st July 2021-30th June 2022, 1st July 2022-30th June 2023, 1st July 2023-30th June 2024, 1st July 2024-30th June 2025 and 1st July 2025-28th February 2026 resulted in the following outcomes:
* Outcome type 1 (charged/summonsed)
* Outcome type 14 (evidential difficulties: suspect not identified; victim does not support further action)
* Outcome type 15 (evidential difficulties: suspect identified; victim supports action)
* Outcome type 16 (evidential difficulties: suspect identified; victim does not support further action)
REQUEST 2:
- Please provide the number of intimate image abuse / 'revenge' porn offences that specifically involved threats to share private sexual photographs or films as opposed to recorded crimes in which these photographs or films had already been shared in the following periods:
o 1st July 2021- 30th June 2022
o 1st July 2022-30th June 2023
o 1st July 2023-30th June 2024
o 1st July 2024-30th June 2025
o 1st July 2025-28th February 2026
Note: by intimate image abuse / 'revenge porn', we mean sharing or threatening to share private sexual photographs or films without the consent of the person or people depicted, which for cases from 31st January 2024 is a criminal offence under section 66(b) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, as inserted by the Online Safety Act 2003.
For cases prior to 31 January 2024, offences were convicted under section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 and included a requirement for intent to cause distress. All the above includes 'deepfakes', which are digitally created and altered content in the form of fake images, videos and audio recordings.
- Please provide the number of intimate image abuse / 'revenge porn' offences that specifically included threats to share private photographs or resulted in outcome types 1, 14, 15 and 16 for the following periods:
o 1st July 2021- 30th June 2022
o 1st July 2022-30th June 2023
o 1st July 2023-30th June 2024
o 1st July 2024-30th June 2025
o 1st July 2025-28th February 2026
REQUEST 3:
- Where possible, please supply data on the sex of victims who reported intimate image abuse / 'revenge porn' offences for the following periods:
o 1st July 2021- 30th June 2022
o 1st July 2022-30th June 2023
o 1st July 2023-30th June 2024
o 1st July 2024-30th June 2025
o 1st July 2025-28th February 2026
- Where possible, please supply data on the sex of victims who reported threats to share private sexual photographs or films for the following periods:
o 1st July 2021- 30th June 2022
o 1st July 2022-30th June 2023
o 1st July 2023-30th June 2024
o 1st July 2024-30th June 2025
o 1st July 2025-28th February 2026
Note: by intimate image abuse / 'revenge porn', we mean sharing or threatening to share private sexual photographs or films without the consent of the person or people depicted, which for cases from 31st January 2024 is a criminal offence under section 66(b) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, as inserted by the Online Safety Act 2003.
For cases prior to 31 January 2024, offences were convicted under section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 and included a requirement for intent to cause distress. All the above includes 'deepfakes', which are digitally created and altered content in the form of fake images, videos and audio recordings.
We clarified with you on 5.3.2026 and you responded on 6/3/2026 your amended request reads:
For the time periods:
o 1st July 2022-30th June 2023
o 1st July 2023-30th June 2024
o 1st July 2024-30th June 2025
o 1st July 2025-28th February 2026
Q1. Please provide the number of recorded crimes for the following offences: H101571, H101570, H101573, H101572, H102609, H102610, H22840, and H12033 (see above list for detail)
To clarify these are the offences we would like information on:
Share photograph or film of person in intimate state intending to cause alarm distress or humiliation
Contrary to section 66B(2) and (10) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. ...
Offence Wording | H101571
………………………………….
Share photograph or film of person in intimate state without consent
Contrary to section 66B(1) and (9) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
Offence Wording | H101570
…………………………………..
Threaten to share photograph or film of person in intimate state
Contrary to section 66B(4) and (10) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
Offence Wording | H101573
…………………………………
Share photograph or film of person in intimate state for the purpose of sexual gratification
Contrary to section 66B(3) and (10) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
Offence Wording | H101572
…………………………………
Create purported intimate image of adult
Contrary to section 66E of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
H102609
………………………………..
Request creation of purported intimate image of adult
Contrary to section 66F(1) and (8) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
H102610
……………………………….
Historic offences =
Disclose / threaten to disclose private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress
Contrary to section 33(1) and (9) of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015.
H22840
…………………………….
Disclose private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress
Contrary to section 33(1) and (9) of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015.
H12033
Q2. Of those results in question 1 please provide the outcomes – specific to offences
Q3. Of those results in question 2 please provide the gender of the victims. - specific to offences
Response
Please find enclosed our response.
Q1. Please provide the number of recorded crimes for the following offences: H101571, H101570, H101573, H101572, H102609, H102610, H22840, and H12033 (see above list for detail)
Below is the number of recorded crimes with offence titles. Please note that these are all the results if some of the title you have mentioned are not listed it is because no data has been retrieved.
Where there is “-“ on a table indicates zero results.
|
Year |
Short Offence Title |
Count |
|
2022/23 |
Disclose or threats to disclose private sexual photographs/film with intent to cause distress |
823 |
|
2023/24 |
Disclose or threats to disclose private sexual photographs/film with intent to cause distress |
294 |
|
2023/24 |
Share photograph or film of person in intimate state without consent |
26 |
|
2023/24 |
Sharing intimate photograph or film to cause alarm, distress or humiliation, or for sexual gratification |
236 |
|
2023/24 |
Threaten to share intimate photograph or film |
92 |
|
2024/25 |
Share photograph or film of person in intimate state without consent |
87 |
|
2024/25 |
Sharing intimate photograph or film to cause alarm, distress or humiliation, or for sexual gratification |
559 |
|
2024/25 |
Threaten to share intimate photograph or film |
258 |
|
2025/26 |
Share photograph or film of person in intimate state without consent |
86 |
|
2025/26 |
Sharing intimate photograph or film to cause alarm, distress or humiliation, or for sexual gratification |
459 |
|
2025/26 |
Threaten to share intimate photograph or film |
164 |
Q2. Of those results in question 1 please provide the outcomes – specific to offences
|
Year |
Short Offence Title |
OC1 |
OC2 |
OC3 |
OC8 |
OC14 |
OC15 |
OC16 |
OC17 |
OC18 |
OC20 |
OC21 |
Pending |
|
2022/23 |
Disclose or threats to disclose private sexual photographs/film with intent to cause distress |
20 |
- |
10 |
1 |
43 |
179 |
433 |
- |
121 |
13 |
2 |
1 |
|
2023/24 |
Disclose or threats to disclose private sexual photographs/film with intent to cause distress |
7 |
- |
5 |
4 |
22 |
59 |
147 |
- |
46 |
4 |
- |
- |
|
2023/24 |
Share photograph or film of person in intimate state without consent |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
9 |
9 |
- |
4 |
2 |
- |
- |
|
2023/24 |
Sharing intimate photograph or film to cause alarm, distress or humiliation, or for sexual gratification |
8 |
- |
1 |
5 |
27 |
50 |
108 |
- |
31 |
6 |
- |
- |
|
2023/24 |
Threaten to share intimate photograph or film |
1 |
- |
- |
1 |
11 |
7 |
53 |
- |
18 |
- |
1 |
- |
|
2024/25 |
Share photograph or film of person in intimate state without consent |
2 |
- |
- |
2 |
8 |
16 |
43 |
1 |
9 |
3 |
3 |
- |
|
2024/25 |
Sharing intimate photograph or film to cause alarm, distress or humiliation, or for sexual gratification |
15 |
1 |
6 |
9 |
49 |
123 |
245 |
- |
89 |
11 |
4 |
7 |
|
2024/25 |
Threaten to share intimate photograph or film |
3 |
- |
2 |
5 |
24 |
53 |
114 |
- |
54 |
- |
- |
3 |
|
2025/26 |
Share photograph or film of person in intimate state without consent |
6 |
- |
1 |
- |
5 |
20 |
23 |
- |
10 |
4 |
1 |
16 |
|
2025/26 |
Sharing intimate photograph or film to cause alarm, distress or humiliation, or for sexual gratification |
3 |
- |
8 |
5 |
51 |
91 |
123 |
- |
108 |
6 |
1 |
63 |
|
2025/26 |
Threaten to share intimate photograph or film |
1 |
- |
- |
4 |
14 |
22 |
53 |
- |
39 |
5 |
- |
26 |
Common Police Outcome Codes (England & Wales)
- Outcome 1: Charge / Summons
- Outcome 2: Caution – youths
- Outcome 3: Caution – adults
- Outcome 4: Taken into Consideration (TIC)
- Outcome 5: Offender died
- Outcome 6: Penalty Notice for Disorder
- Outcome 7: Cannabis/Khat Warning
- Outcome 8: Community Resolution
- Outcome 9: Not in public interest (CPS)
- Outcome 10: Not in public interest (Police)
- Outcome 11: Prosecution prevented - suspect under age
- Outcome 12: Prosecution prevented - suspect too ill
- Outcome 13: Prosecution prevented - victim/key witness dead/too ill
- Outcome 19: NFIB only (Fraud - no investigation)
- Outcome 20: Action by another body/agency
- Outcome 21: Not in public interest (Suspect identified)
- Outcome 22: Diversionary, educational or intervention activity
Q3. Of those results in question 2 please provide the gender of the victims. - specific to offences
|
Year |
Short Offence Title |
Female |
Male |
Other/Unknown/Unspecified |
|
2022/23 |
Disclose or threats to disclose private sexual photographs/film with intent to cause distress |
630 |
165 |
30 |
|
2023/24 |
Disclose or threats to disclose private sexual photographs/film with intent to cause distress |
228 |
55 |
11 |
|
2023/24 |
Share photograph or film of person in intimate state without consent |
22 |
4 |
- |
|
2023/24 |
Sharing intimate photograph or film to cause alarm, distress or humiliation, or for sexual gratification |
183 |
48 |
5 |
|
2023/24 |
Threaten to share intimate photograph or film |
72 |
20 |
- |
|
2024/25 |
Share photograph or film of person in intimate state without consent |
57 |
14 |
16 |
|
2024/25 |
Sharing intimate photograph or film to cause alarm, distress or humiliation, or for sexual gratification |
370 |
121 |
70 |
|
2024/25 |
Threaten to share intimate photograph or film |
172 |
54 |
33 |
|
2025/26 |
Share photograph or film of person in intimate state without consent |
52 |
17 |
17 |
|
2025/26 |
Sharing intimate photograph or film to cause alarm, distress or humiliation, or for sexual gratification |
273 |
123 |
66 |
|
2025/26 |
Threaten to share intimate photograph or film |
100 |
35 |
29 |
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