Since the original publication of this article Mr Poshteh has been acquitted of stalking. The court imposed a restraining order preventing him from contacting the woman involved.

A wealthy student sent sex reviews and naked photos to the mother of an escort who told him not to contact her after he ‘went weird’, a court heard.

Max Poshteh, 22, tracked down contact details for family members and exposed her as a prostitute after she tried to cut him off.

Poshteh and the woman first met when he contacted her on sex worker website adultwork.com, Inner London Crown Court heard.

Max Poshteh harassed an escort and sent explicit photographs to her family, a court heard (Picture: Central News)

The court was told that the student – described by prosecutors as a ‘computer geek’ – paid her for sex on two occasions at a Kensington hotel in 2016.


They later became friends and socialised over drinks and lunches, with Poshteh giving her £10,000 in total over a period of 18 months to pay her rent and bills.

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He sent text messages telling her ‘you don’t owe me anything’, the court heard.



But prosecutors claim she soon started to feel pressured by the student and when he ‘started to get a bit weird with her’, she tried to end their relationship.

Paul Fairley, prosecuting, told jurors: ‘It appears from text messages that he appears to have some feelings for her.

‘No doubt she was happy that he was looking to take care of her and that he was essentially making things easier for her.

‘There are loads of text messages relating to the money and her saying she will pay him back and him saying “No, you don’t owe me anything”.

‘The money was given over as a young but wealthy benefactor.’

The pair met for sex at a Kensington hotel on two occaisions in 2016

But Mr Fairley said that when she told Poshteh to stop contacting her he demanded the money back and began a two month harassment campaign.

Between October and December last year Poshteh created fake accounts on social media including one, named Sam Bloggs, that he used to forward a sex review by one of her clients to her mother along with pictures from her site exposing her as a sex worker, the court heard.

He was also monitoring her on social media, the court heard.

If he believed she was in a hotel with a client he would phone up and ask to be put through to her, jurors were told.

Prosecutors argued that on one occasion he left voicemail messages saying he would ‘f***k her up’, which prompted her to go to the police.

Officers went to Poshteh’s Chelsea home on October 26 last year and issued him with a harassment warning.

But that same evening he phoned the escort’s grandfather, who lives in Devon, claiming to be a debt collector who needed to get in touch with her dad, prosecutors allege.

Inner London Crown Court, where Poshteh is on trial for stalking (Picture: PA)

Mr Fairley said: ‘It did not just stop there – he began to extract images from her work profile.

‘These were semi-naked and of an intimate type – and he started sending them to her family.

‘Her mum got a copy.

‘The only reason he did this, we say, was to get her back.’

Poshteh, of Dalgarno Gardens, Chelsea, denies one count of stalking involving serious alarm or distress.

The trial continues.