Man avoids jail term for taking upskirt photos
OFFENCES HAPPENED WHILE TRAVELLING ON THE TUBE
A 62-YEAR-OLD man has avoided jail after being found guilty of taking upskirting photos on the London Underground.
Martin Stone has been given a 12-month suspended sentence and made to pay £213 for recording images underneath people’s clothes on the Tube.
He took images of 18 people’s genitals and underwear without their consent between August 2 and August 4.
Appearing at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Monday September 13, the 62-year-old, from Colindeep Gardens in Colindale, admitted to recording these images to use for his own sexual perversions.
He committed one offence at Bank Underground station on August 4 and was caught filming a woman while standing behind her as she went up an escalator.
British Transport Police apprehended Stone after following him out of the station and found him watching the footage of the woman’s legs and skirt on his phone.
Officers seized two mobile phones, a spy camera pen, two oyster cards and one camera from him upon his arrest.
After the arrest, he appeared in Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on August 5 and pleaded guilty to one count of voyeurism and was sentenced to 10 days in jail.
Since then, he appeared a second time at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Monday September 13 and has now been given a suspended prison sentence for 12 months and a fine.
The defendant has also been banned from using Transport for London unless paying with a registered Oyster card.
Furthermore, he is not allowed to have any device including photographic equipment, USB sticks and memory cards that are capable of storing images.
The 62-year-old can only be granted these if he makes it available on request for inspection by police.
The £213 he is made to pay includes a surcharge of £128 to fund victim services and £85 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Stone is also required to register with the police in accordance with the Sexual Offences Act 2003 for seven years at Colindale police station.
The court also ordered that all SIM and memory cards from his phones and cameras were destroyed.