Researcher claimed ‘up-skirt’ snap victims let him do it

  A PhD-qualified researcher caught with up-skirt pictures of female Tube passengers on his mobile phone told police he had their consent, a court heard. Dr Richard George, 49, took photos of unsuspecting women on the London Underground during August last year. Prosecutor Olivia Ball said: ‘Numerous women have been targeted over a period of time. ‘These offences took place over the month of August last year. On 25 August last year, Mr George was travelling on the Westbound Central…