‘Upskirt pics? Those are my girlfriends, officer’

A PhD-qualified researcher who trawled the Tube trying to take up-skirt pictures on his mobile phone has been spared jail. Dr Richard George, 49, took dozens of shots on the Central, Westbound and District & Circle lines. A passenger on the Central Line saw George fiddling with his phone and realised he was taking pictures of the woman opposite him, Highbury Corner Magistrates heard. Another woman witnessed the incident and the pair challenged George at Leytonstone but he quickly left…