An electrician has been jailed after hiding cameras in folks’s properties so he might secretly movie them having intercourse.
James Denholm, 34, used his work as cowl to suit spying gadgets throughout a ten-year marketing campaign of voyeurism and stalking.
He used secret cameras to movie folks with out their permission – recording them of their properties and in public bogs.
He recorded some girls having intercourse and others utilizing the bathroom and altering.
Denholm was caught when a sufferer discovered a recording gadget below her mattress in Might 2022 and known as the police. The disgraced tradesman was yesterday jailed for 32 months after admitting 16 costs, affecting 17 folks, at Aberdeen Sheriff Courtroom.
James Denholm, 34, (pictured) used his work as cowl to suit spying gadgets throughout a ten-year marketing campaign of voyeurism and stalking
Denholm used secret cameras to movie folks with out their permission – recording them of their properties and in public bogs
The disgraced tradesman was yesterday jailed for 32 months after admitting 16 costs, affecting 17 folks, at Aberdeen Sheriff Courtroom. (Pictured, a normal view of Aberdeen Sheriff Courtroom)
The electrician additionally admitted possessing indecent photos and movies of youngsters between 2007 and 2012. Alison McKenzie, procurator fiscal for Grampian, Highlands and Islands, stated Denholm ‘exploited a place of belief to achieve entry to his victims throughout this alarming sample of behaviour’.
She stated: ‘He filmed a number of people throughout non-public moments in locations the place they need to have felt protected, akin to their very own properties and in public bogs. His wicked behaviour has had lasting penalties on a lot of these focused throughout this sickening marketing campaign.’
Certainly one of Denholm’s victims endured a five-year marketing campaign, throughout which he entered her house with out her information or consent.
Throughout that point, he took a intercourse doll and lingerie into the property, dressing it in gadgets of her clothes and taking pictures of it. He additionally captured photos from outdoors his victims’ house, and filmed himself having intercourse with girls with out their information.
Detective Inspector Mark Lambley stated yesterday Denholm now ‘faces the results of his despicable and distressing actions’.
Mr Lambley added: ‘Sexual crime of any nature is not going to be tolerated. We are going to completely examine any reviews made to us, irrespective of how a lot time has handed.’
