TWO MEN WHO SECRETLY PHOTOGRAPHED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE INCLUDING CHILDREN GETTING CHANGED AT SWIMMING POOLS HAVE BEEN HANDED JAIL SENTENCES.
Adam Dennis, aged 38 from Littlehampton, and Robert Morgan, aged 32 from London, were photographed at least 6,000 individuals, including minors, at swimming pools across London and the South West of England.The police described the pair as 'insidious' after they received sentences totalling 42 months in prison, handed down at Inner London Crown Court on April 24.
However, their actual time served will be 11 months, as one of the sentences was suspended.
The men not only took pictures of victims changing but also recorded members of the public using toilets and shared or traded these images on online forums.
They went further by creating profile files for some victims, some of whom were children, and investigated them via social media.
Authorities linked the case to an investigation into an unrelated assault on a train in March 2017, which led to a mobile device being confiscated.
Both men were arrested in November 2017 on voyeurism charges.
After detailed inquiries, they were ultimately convicted.
Dennis had previously pleaded guilty to one count of voyeurism, one count of conspiracy to make indecent photographs of a child, one count of conspiracy to distribute indecent photographs of a child and one count of possessing indecent photographs of a child.
He was sentenced to 22 months imprisonment - only half of which he will serve, and the remainder will be spent on licence.
While investigators managed to identify some victims, many of the images remain unidentifiable.
Both men are also subject to a nine-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order with the following conditions: • To not share any images showing the genitals of any woman or female child via the internet or file sharing application, including (but not limited to) email and/or social media apps • To not enter any female only or mixed sex changing room area of any swimming pool or leisure centre.
• To not contact each other, including via the internet or telephone.
• To not communicate in any way with any other person that he knows or has reasonable suspicion that that person has received a conviction, caution, reprimand or warning in respect of sexual offences against children under 18 years of age.
