“A university lecturer who rigged up a covert camera to spy on a woman using a shower was today ordered to register as a sex offender.”
The Independent, 16th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A BBC radio producer who secretly filmed himself having sex with five different women has been jailed for eight months.”
BBC News, 4th March 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A voyeur who filmed underneath women’s skirts in a supermarket has been ordered not to use a camera in public for two years at Preston Crown Court.”
BBC News, 11th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for more than two years for setting up secret cameras to spy on people renting his cottage.”
BBC news, 5th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An 85-year-old pensioner who regularly followed young boys into the toilets at St Paul’s Cathedral was told by a judge today he could remain free provided he did not spend too long in public lavatories.”
The Independent, 9th January 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man who spied on a nine-year-old girl in a supermarket toilet has been given a suspended prison sentence.”
BBC News, 4th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A rapist who admitted spying on his neighbours by using a camera hidden in their bedroom has been sent to prison for an indefinite period.”
BBC News, 8th August 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A hotel manager who set up a hidden camera in a bedroom to watch a couple having sex has been jailed.”
BBC News, 3rd July 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“The reference to ‘breasts’ in section 68(1)(a) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, defining voyeurism, did not include male breasts.”
The Times, 18th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
R v Bassett; [2008] WLR (D) 157
“For an offence of voyeurism to be committed, within the definition in s 67 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, there had to be a private act which involved parts of the body for which people would normally expect privacy, as defined by s 68(1). Casual observation by other changing room users created no offence of voyeurism, even if those persons gained sexual gratification from what they saw. Although those using the showers at a public swimming pool had a reasonable expectation of privacy from covert filming, there was no reasonable expectation that a man should enjoy privacy of his upper torso, since “breasts” in the Act referred to female breasts and not the exposed male chest.”
WLR Daily, 20th May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“It is perfectly legal to ogle a man’s chest but not a woman’s breasts, according to an unusual ruling on what constitutes voyeurism by a panel of leading judges at the Court of Appeal yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th May 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A police officer who admitted spying on a female colleague after he made a peephole into an Essex police station’s gym has received a suspended jail term.”
BBC News, 19th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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