Voyeur electrician who hid cameras in women’s homes jailed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6p2rvxz3v6o

Posted by antbaby_machetesquad

15 Comments

  1. antbaby_machetesquad on

    I’m not sure how you could ever truly relax again after finding out this creepy pervert had been spying on you, potentially for years.

  2. Longjumping_Stand889 on

    What a creepy person, though I was slightly relieved that most of his victims were not people found through his work. Only slightly.

  3. Think the sentence is light considering how much of a breach of trust this is and that kids were involved

  4. Christ, women can’t even escape male sexual depravity in their own homes. Why are so many of them like this? Is it really just the case that testosterone exposure increases the risk of deviant behaviour manifesting?

    How can we even go about correcting this, because it’s pretty much every day that I’m reading headlines about men catcalling women, flashing them, groping them, strangling them, raping them, upskirting them in museums, filming them unclothed in their own homes, and it increasingly feels like insanity that we’re raised to accept these risks as a necessary and unchangeable facet of society.

    Before a bunch of men starts screeching under my comment about how they aren’t like this, I’m not saying that you are, so you really have no reason to comment unless you want to participate in a discussion on how to address the issue. 

  5. 2 years… So he’s out in a year…..

    Guaranteed this guy is moving aboard when he finishes his sentence…. Beware of air BnB in English speaking countries with lax law enforcement…. South Africa, India etc.

    He won’t stop this. This is step one of an offenders list… And he’s already going up the ladder by taking a sex doll into someone’s house etc..

    I read the article thinking; no he must have got more than two years… Then I remembered how shit we are at dealing with perverts…..

  6. 32 months for someone who has grossly invaded multiple people’s privacy is disgusting. He will be out in a year and be straight back to doing it (if anything he will be doing it more carefully) as there has been minimal punishment.

  7. JimJonesdrinkkoolaid on

    For anyone who is a counsellor or has experience of counselling in regards to someone experiencing something horrible like this- how does counselling work? I don’t mean I’m questioning that it works, I just mean how does a counsellor try and help someone overcome something like this?

    >”I struggled a lot with my sleeping, I have had to go through counselling, and it has had an impact on my studies.

  8. What an abysmal sentence for such a disgusting crime with ramifications that could last a lifetime for the victims. I don’t think I’d ever feel totally comfortable in my *own home* ever again if I was one of these women, and I certainly wouldn’t be comfortable letting workmen in anymore unless they were supervised 100% of the time.

  9. The psychological impact of not being able to relax and feel safe _in your own fucking home_ must be enormous. Poor families.

  10. londons_explorer on

    I can kinda see how you might think you’d get away with a hidden camera in an airbnb or something where the resident isn’t really allowed to disassemble stuff.

    But hiding a camera in someone elses home is pretty much guarantees to be detected eventually – if not by the resident, then by the next electrician who says “hmm, odd, there is something plugged into on this circuit, lets go find it”.

  11. savvymcsavvington on

    17 victims = 1.8 months sentence per victim.. AND he’ll get out early

    What a freaking joke

  12. ExcitingAd7338 on

    Am glad men like are being brought out to the open so that women can be more careful. Frankly, women should only trust their Fathers & Brothers. Every other male sphieces is off limit.

  13. It must have took him more work to hide them than just install them properly, if they’re hidden they can’t record anything and the security they offer is wasted.

    Glad he got arrested, there’s too many shoddy tradesmen around these days. I hope these women got their money back. Also OP, you can just say cowboy in the title, don’t need to use some french word for it.