A SWINDON man convinced a teen to send him sexually explicit images and threatened to release them unless she performed lewd acts on her dog and younger sister, a court has been told.

Trevor Fernandes allegedly told the girl to strip naked and send videos and photographs of her performing sexual acts on herself, her baby sister and her pet dog.

It was claimed that Fernandes made the girl call him ‘master’ or ‘master Trevor’, and would regularly ensure she was following his instructions by demanding photographic evidence on his command “check”.

But at the end of the day-long abuse in 2020, which Swindon Crown Court heard started on Instagram and quickly moved to the Kik messaging app, Fernandes threatened to send explicit videos of the girl to her mother when she failed to perform a sex act on her dog.

Prosecutor Daniel Sawyer told jurors that the girl, who lives in Texas, was begging Fernandes not to expose the videos and photos. In the end, she ran to a convenience store where the local police department was called as she was distressed.

Fernandes, of Dixon Street, faces 16 charges – seven of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and nine of making indecent photographs of a child.

Opening his case on Thursday, Mr Sawyer said that the girl had been communicating on Instagram with an account called Reckitt03, who had asked for sexual pictures with her younger sister.

The user of the account, who the prosecution claim is 37-year-old Fernandes, then asked for the conversation to be moved to Kik, and his account called ‘cute and strict’. He asked for her to use a fake email, age and birthday so “no one can track you”.

Taking the jury through almost 200 pages of evidence – from chat logs to forensic analysis – Mr Sawyer went through scores of messages sent between the victim and the perpetrator.

It includes the man, who called himself Trevor, asking her to “get nude now”, with the girl replying: “Yes master.”

The man behind the account is then said to have asked the girl to take videos of herself with her baby sister, including positioning the child on her naked body.

After receiving one message, he is said to have replied: “You take two minutes to send a 10-second video and then send it wrong princess. I have to train you so much.”

Mr Sawyer said at one point the girl sent photos of her in revealing clothing and underwear – at the man’s instruction.

“That’s hot, but go get your dog,” he replied. “Let’s do what we planned.”

As she struggled to perform a sex act on the animal, messages were sent counting down from 60 seconds. “I’ll break my promise now,” Fernandes is alleged to have said.

“She says no please, please,” Mr Sawyer told jurors. “He sends her the screenshot showing her mum’s phone number.

“There’s no response because by that point, [the victim] had gone to the convenience store where the police were called.”

Mr Sawyer went on to say that police in Texas launched an investigation, tracing the IP address used to send the messages back to Fernandes’s address in Dixon Street, Swindon.

Officers from the National Crime Agency attended and seized his Samsung phone, where an encrypted partition known as Knox was found, he said.

On this was Snapchat and Kik signed in on the accounts that were used to abuse the girl, Mr Sawyer continued.

Fernandes, who works for Wasdell, “denied all knowledge” of the Knox partition and claimed “someone else hacked into his phone”.

But prosecutors say this is “nonsense”, adding there is evidence that links Fernandes to Knox, and “a number of commonalities were found between the data on the open partition and the Knox partition”.

Mr Sawyer had earlier told jurors: “Everybody agrees that whoever sent these messages is guilty of all the charges that are before you. The issue for you is going to determine whether or not that was Mr Fernandes.”

The trial continues. Fernandes denies all charges.