For the so-called branding and diversity assignment, Brookes’ message said she wanted pictures of shoes. It’s believed the message was one of perhaps dozens sent over the past few years by Palmerston North man Malachai Scott Roger Wylie. The 23-year-old is charged with two counts of behaving in an offensive manner in the city s Number One Shoes shop, where he was an employee, and one of theft, for taking a customer’s shoe insole. Wylie’s online footprint spread further and messages from fake online profiles would solicit pictures of shoes from women, using the pretence of an imminent study deadline.