Sick Snapchat hacker locked up for accessing Shropshire women's accounts while on suspended sentence

Adam Piggott, from Lime Street, Shrewsbury, appeared at Shrewsbury Crown Court where he was sentenced for a number of offences.

The 36-year-old admitted 12 counts of causing a computer to perform a function to secure/enable unauthorised access to a program/data, and one charge of attempting to cause a computer to perform a function to secure/enable unauthorised access to a program/data.

The charges relate to effectively hacking into social media, e-mail, and shopping accounts belonging to women - predominantly from the Shrewsbury area.

Piggott’s crimes were discovered by police who were carrying out checks on him as part of a suspended sentence he was given in January 2025.

On that occasion Piggott was sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for 18 months.

That case involved Piggott hacking into women’s accounts between 2019 and 2021 - predominantly Snapchat- with the intention of stealing intimate images and videos.

The court was told that Piggott had uploaded the private images to a website where he created a dedicated section named 'Shrewsbury Girls'.

Distressing details of the impact on his victims were revealed at the time, with the women speaking of severe damage to their mental health, leaving them anxious about leaving the house, with one even attempting to take her own life.

The latest offences were not considered sexually motivated by the court - with Judge Trevor Meegan saying there was not enough evidence that intimate images had been taken or handed out, although he remained suspicious of the motives.

The offences, which targeted a host of victims, came just months after Piggott was spared jail.

They came to light when police examined his devices in February 2025, just the month after his previous sentence, and found a payment he had received for the purposes of hacking a woman’s accounts.

He was arrested and released under investigation.

Police then carried out a second visit to his home and when they examined one of his iPhones discovered it was logged into a TikTok account belonging to a woman.

Asked why he told police: “I think I am going to answer no comment.”

Laura Coton, prosecuting, told how Piggott had accessed accounts belonging to scores of women - including on TikTok, Boohoo, and Outlook.

Ms Coton read a series of harrowing impact statements from Piggott’s latest victims.

Some detailed how after discovering his previous offences they were now worried about the future, and the motivations for his hacking.

One said: “I just feel this is so weird and he won’t stop hacking into people’s accounts.”

One described his actions as a “complete violation”, adding: “Now I know what that man is capable of I am worried he has done the same with me.”

Another said: “It really concerns me that he has done this before and it did not stop him and he’s done it again.”

The statements described the severe impact on the women’s lives, leaving them anxious about going out, distrusting of other people, and worried their messages and images could resurface, affecting their future personal lives and jobs.

Kevin Jones, mitigating on Piggott’s behalf, said Piggott had a diagnosis of autism and had expressed remorse for his actions.

He said that his work with the probation service as part of his previous sentence means he now understands the impact of his offences on his victims.

He said: “Mr Piggott now has a significant amount of empathy in terms of impact.”

He added: “With his mental health conditions it is not as easy for him to feel the empathy for others.”

Mr Jones said that the work of probation was starting to rehabilitate him.

He said: “Unfortunately for Mr Piggott what your honour has is repeat offending but at the same time and I hope the victims take some comfort in seeing this, the criminal justice system is starting to make inroads with Adam Piggott.”

Mr Jones also stressed that there was “no sexual element to these offences.”

But Judge Meegan said there could be no alternative to prison.

Addressing Piggott directly while several of his victims sat in the public gallery, he said: “This is a case of persistent intrusion into the lives of young women by a sad, lonely man.

“And despite previous leniency shown by the court you have nevertheless continued to offend.”

Judge Meegan said the victims’ statements showed the “significant emotional impact” of the offences.

Addressing the motivation for the offending the judge said: “Although there are strong suspicions in my mind of a sexual interest in the young women concerned I cannot be satisfied to the criminal standard on the evidence before me that this was sexually motivated.”

The judge said he accepted Piggott’s remorse, apologies to his victims, and his autism and mental health difficulties.

But he said: “I have considered whether the sentence can be suspended. It cannot be suspended again.

“This is serious, persistent offending involving multiple victims that was committed in breach of a suspended sentence for related offending.”

Piggott was sentenced to total of 32 months in prison - including the activation of six months from his previous suspended sentence.

He was also made subject of a five year criminal behaviour order to monitor his future behaviour - allowing police to demand he hand over any digital devices immediately for examination.