from www.heraldsun.com.au - A PORN company is refusing to agree to former models' requests to remove their images from its website, despite telling a court it would do so if asked.
Several women who have now turned their back on the adult industry have pleaded with G Media to erase photo and video images of them from its sex site.
But the company has refused, telling them it is "not our policy".
Yet the recently convicted firm's high-profile barrister, Robert Richter, QC, told Deputy Chief Magistrate Jelena Popovic last month that G Media's policy was to remove images of models if those models requested it to do so.
"It (the policy) allows the models who want to have their images removed to ask for them to be removed and they are removed," he told her.
Former nude model Bella, 24, seized on Mr Richter's comments and recently asked G Media to remove every image of her. She was told in writing that wouldn't be possible as "removing content from the site is not our policy".
Several other models who posed nude for G Media have received similar refusals after asking the company to delete explicit photographs and video footage.
"We were not made aware what we were doing was illegal," said Bella, who asked not to be identified.
"Now the company has been convicted I want my images removed. I have contacted 30 other models and 28 of them told me they intend asking that images of them be taken down.
"Several of them have already been told it is not possible, despite the promise made in court that all they had to do was ask and they would be removed."
G Media, run by Garion Hall [pictured], last month pleaded guilty to possessing a commercial quantity of objectionable films it intended selling or exhibiting.
G Media also pleaded guilty to producing an objectionable film in Victoria. It was fined $6000.
The sex films were too graphic to be legally made or sold in Victoria.
Mr Hall, 35, was initially charged with two counts of possessing child pornography, 54 counts of making objectionable films for gain and two counts of possessing a commercial quantity of objectionable films.
Melbourne Magistrates' Court was told the prosecution agreed to drop all the charges against Mr Hall after his company agreed to plead guilty.
Mr Hall has recently told his staff that the company will be moving its operations to Amsterdam.