A woman who stole her boyfriend’s mobile phone and then threatened to send intimate pictures of a woman she discovered on the device has been placed on a supervision order.

Adele Thomson was in a relationship with the man and believed that he had been cheating on her with another woman.

The 23-year-old took her former partner’s phone and, after seeing the images of a woman in “an intimate situation”, she threatened to disclose the pictures.

Her lawyer told Edinburgh Sheriff Court that Thomson, of Musselburgh, had been “immature and stupid” to issue the threats but that she had been “angry at her partner” at the time.

Thomson pleaded guilty to the offence when she appeared at the Capital court last month and returned to be sentenced last week.

Sheriff Anderson placed the offender on an order where she will be supervised by the local social work department for the next 12 months.

Thomson pleaded guilty to stealing a mobile phone from an address at Newbigging in Musselburgh on July 22 this year.

She also admitted to threatening to disclose photos which showed a woman in an intimate situation by sending the photos to the woman and threatening to disclose the images to others, causing her fear, alarm or distress, on the same date.