Patrick Dewhirst shared the footage with team-mates on WhatsApp

A Scotland rugby player recorded a sex act with a woman who was unaware that he was filming her before sending the footage to 28 team-mates.

Patrick Dewhirst filmed himself sexually touching the woman as she lay “prone” in a hotel room on May 23 last year.

He then distributed the sexual images to a WhatsApp group containing members of the under-20s Scotland rugby squad.

The next day Dewhirst and his team-mates headed out to France to compete in last year’s World Rugby U20 Championship.

Dewhirst’s career as a Scottish Rugby modern apprentice is in ruins after he was placed on the sex offenders register at Edinburgh sheriff court today.

The fly half, who plays for Ayr RFC, the Scottish Premiership champions, had previously pleaded