UPSKIRT TUBE PERV DODGES PRISON

A FINANCE student who filmed up women’s skirts on the Tube has dodged jail.

Kalvin Patel Martin, 22, preyed on three victims as they stood in front of him on the escalators at Victoria, Bond Street and Oxford Circus stations on August 10, 2018.

He was only caught when a passenger spotted his phone veering towards the skirt of one of the victims.

Anna Hindmarsh, head of prosecuting, said: “At 10pm the defendant was travelling at Oxford Circus tube station.

“He was witnessed by another person to be standing very close to a female with his mobile phone, upskirting her basically.

“He is arrested, then de- arrested and reported for the offence.

“Six months later he attends an interview and his phone is seized and on the phone there are three incidents of upskirting.

“The first one is at London Victoria station where he started recording a female’s legs on the escalator. She had bare legs and was wearing a short black dress.

“He filmed up her skirt and bottom and that can be seen on the video for a few seconds.

“On the second occasion he was unable to film up the skirt as she was wearing a knee length dress and he couldn’t record it.

“And on the third one he was also unable to film up the skirt.

“He has been interviewed twice and he admits it was wrong. He is not charged now with the new legislation ( of upskirting), as in 2018 it was still the outraging public decency offence.”

Martin, of, Croydon, south London, admitted three counts of outraging public decency.

Martin ( right) was handed a 24- month community order but will not be placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register.

Mel Kelemework, defending, said: “He has a level two and three in ICT business finance and accounting.”