Ocado delivery driver filmed up customer’s skirts

An Ocado delivery driver who secretly filmed up the skirts of customers on their doorsteps was spared jail.

Andrew Bean, 52, used mini-cameras concealed in fake car keys to film his victims as he dropped off their groceries.

He bought the devices easily off Amazon and uploaded the footage onto his computer.

Videos of girls in school uniform on buses were also found on his hard drive after he was caught on August 31 last year.

He was arrested by chance after an off-duty police officer spotted him stalking woman around Sainsbury’s in Surbiton, Surrey.

He noticed the voyeur clicking at a device while closely following two women wearing short trousers and a skirt.

The officer detained Bean in the car park and he replied: ‘Fair enough I’ve been stupid’, Kingston Crown Court heard.

Police found four of the secret cameras stashed in his home, with 15 videos on his computer of up-skirt videos, and close ups of women wearing hot pants.

Bean admitted that he was addicted to making the videos, and had been doing so for several years.

Images found on his computer showed him dropping off Ocado groceries to unsuspecting women, while filming them with his hidden cameras.

Judge Peter Lodder QC, told the pervert: ‘It’s no mitigation that none of those women realised what you were doing.

‘They would have been appalled by the invasion of their privacy.

‘The determination which you approached your interest is revealed by the fact that you had been doing this for a number of years and had purchased at least four possibly five cameras.

‘I’m quite satisfied that this case crosses the custody threshold.

‘But in this case it is appropriate that the sentence can be suspended.

‘I will sentence you to eight weeks custody suspended for two years.

Prosecutor Stephen Apten said: ‘The first charge related to a moving image from the key camera on 27 August last year images lasting about a minute,’ he said.

‘It was of a lady showing her legs wearing a short pair of shorts and the images show the camera as close to her buttocks.

‘As she moved away the defendant moves close to her.

‘He put a basket down so the camera is pointed upwards to her buttocks and vaginal area.

‘There appear to be a number of other similar videos on that key fob, 15 videos in total.

‘He admitted it became an addictive habit having gone on for some years.

‘That’s clear from one of the computers that was seized, as there were images from while he worked as an Ocado delivery driver of customers that had been taken.

‘There were also images of girls in school uniform.

‘He had purchased four to five cameras he bought them from Amazon between November 2014 – June 2015.’

Shaun Hauschild, defending Bean, said:’He said he did it because he could.

‘There an element of thrill seeking, being able to do this without being caught.

‘He insists it’s not sexual.’

Mr Hauschild said footage of girls on the bus was taken after Bean positioned the camera to film people going up and down the stairs.

‘The camera was not intended for the girls in particular, it was left on and placed so as to record people going from the lower deck to the upper deck,’ he said.

Bean, of Gateways, Surbiton Hill Road, Surbiton, admitted two counts of outraging public decency.

He was sentneced to eight weeks custody suspended for two years; Bean must also complete 50 group work programmes and is not allowed to use a phone with image recording capability.
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