Peeping Tom Caught Videotaping A Chick In The Shower, Says He Was Just Checking To See If His Phone Was Waterproof

A PEEPING Tom used his mobile phone to film a woman showering in a swimming pool cubicle – and claimed he was only trying to see if the phone was waterproof. Teenager Zak Hardy told police that he took his new phone into his cubicle to test how water proof it was by placing it under his shower. The 18-year-old, from Plymouth, claimed as he was drying the phone he activated the camera accidentally.

At Exeter Magistrates’ Court his solicitor Nick Bradley said Hardy now accepted that his account, made when he was not represented, was not true as he had held the phone above his head and over into the next cubicle. Hardy, of George Place, Millbay Road, admitted voyeurism by recording a private act in June at the Riverside swimming pool in Exeter. Prosecutor Ian Graham said the naked woman in the shower cubicle saw a light coming overhead from a blue phone.

He said the woman grabbed a towel and covered herself and left the cubicle to raise the alarm with staff. Mr Graham said Hardy was seen darting into another changing cubicle and staff waited for him to come out – holding his phone. In police interview he said:”He explained how he took his new mobile phone into the cubicle to see how waterproof it was. He said he then shook it to dry it off of any water residue.”