Glasgow Times

Pervert filmed schoolgirl­s and kept sick diary

- BY CONNOR GORDON

APERVERT secretly filmed more than 50 videos of unwitting schoolgirl­s for almost nine years. Gary McGorm used a camera hidden in a bag to record the youngsters.

The 52-year-old tailed them in restaurant­s, on public transport and while walking in the street.

Police later found a sick diary detailing his crimes – as well as a mannequin dressed like a schoolgirl at his home in Dumbarton.

The first offender is now behind bars after he pleaded guilty yesterday to a breach of the peace as well as acting in a threatenin­g manner.

The charges spanned between June 2011 and February this year.

McGorm will be sentenced in August.

He was caught after staff at a Taco Bell restaurant in Glasgow’s Sauchiehal­l Street were suspicious of him.

McGorm had a bag with a square cut out as a camera lens tracked two girls sitting nearby.

He then followed the pair out before staff alerted police. McGorm was soon stopped.

Prosecutor Mark Allan told Glasgow Sheriff Court: “Officers observed a silver camera contained within an open shoebox inside the green carrier bag.

“The camera had 51 videos which featured female pupils being covertly filmed on streets, in fast food restaurant­s and on public transport.

“Those filmed were children in uniform.”

Mr Allan then explained other discoverie­s at McGorm’s home.

He went on: “A further 11 images of a mannequin dressed in a white shirt, grey skirt and a variation of socks or tights were recovered from a digital camera as was the mannequin itself.”

A diary – with what appeared to be a school motto on the front – then revealed details of other similar incidents.

These included at Glasgow’s Central Station, on a train to Edinburgh and at a Subway restaurant.

It also appeared the oddball had a foot or sock fetish.

Judith Reid, defending, said: “He accepts there was a significan­t sexual element.”

Sheriff Stuart Reid remanded McGorm in custody as sentencing was deferred for reports. all school

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Glasgow Central Station was one of the locations an incident occurred at

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