Jail for voyeur who filmed in women’s toilets

A man has been jailed after he flouted a strict court order by entering and filming inside women’s toilets.

Alan Russell, 46, was reported to his bosses by a colleague in April last year after he followed her to the women’s toilets at their workplace in Huntingdon.

CCTV footage showed Russell waiting for the victim to close the cubicle door before entering the toilets while filming on his mobile phone.

This was in breach of a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) imposed by Lincolnshire Magistrates’ Court in July 2015 after Russell was convicted of multiple voyeurism offences.

Part of the SHPO forbade Russell from entering any female toilets, loitering within ten metres of any public toilet, or entering any room that females use as a changing room.

At Cambridge Crown Court on Thursday (5 February), Russell, of Princes Street, Peterborough, admitted voyeurism and breaching a SHPO, and was jailed for one year and six months.

PC Alex Neill, who investigated, said: “Despite his previous court order, Russell targeted his female colleague, filming her in a private setting without her consent.

“I can only imagine how violated the victim must have felt in a place where she should have felt safe.

“I would like to praise the victim for coming forwards so that Russell could be brought to justice, and I hope his sentence shows how seriously we take this kind of crime.”

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