Worthing man jailed for voyeurism

A man who hid a video camera in an adult's bedroom so that he could watch her getting undressed has been jailed.
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Tarran Collins Shakespeare Road jailed for voyeuriem

Tarran Collins, 24, a theatre director, of Shakespeare Road, Worthing, appeared at Chichester Crown Court on February 5 for sentencing having been convicted of voyeurism and two counts of making an indecent photograph of a child at Chichester Magistrates’ Court on January 7.

Sentencing him to at least 16 months in prison, Judge Christopher Parker said: “You have caused an immense amount of trouble and upset.

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“While she was absent from her bedroom you concealed a camera in there so that you could secretly film and record her getting undressed and being naked in the privacy of her own bedroom.

“You had taken steps to acquire the camera, under an alias, so that you would not be discovered because you knew what you were doing was fundamentally wrong.

“She did find the camera, but not before it had been operating and filming her getting undressed. You were confronted with what you had done and you denied it.”

The court heard that as a result of his arrest in March 2015, other electronic media was recovered and on one item was found a total of 64 indecent images of children - teenage girls. A further single image was recovered from a phone.

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Judge Parker noted that the only mitigating factor was that Collins had undergone some voluntary therapy.

However, taking into an account a previous conviction for twelve offences of making indecent images of children for which he was given a suspended 12 month sentence in 2012, he added: “Given the escalation in your offending, the type of offending and the spread of offences here, you do pose a significant risk of serious harm to members of the public, particularly young women and teenage girls, that risk arising from your committing further specified offences.”

Collins was sentenced to a maximum of 20 months with at least 16 months to be served.

He was also made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order for five years.

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