‘I only took upskirt pictures for a joke’

An Italian Olympic rower who took pictures up a woman’s skirt at in a train to Waterloo claimed he only did it as a ‘joke’, a court heard. Roberto Blanda, 48, who rowed for Italy at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, said his victim reminded him of his partner and he wanted to send the snap to a friend to give him a laugh. Prosecutor Henry Fitch said:‘This occurred on 19 July in the…