Voyeur policeman rebuked by judge

A POLICEMAN who preyed on drunk students to film up their skirts has been described as a “figure of national shame”.

PC Kevin Dwyer, 39, also twice crept up to a window to film a young couple having sex inside a building.

He even filmed up the skirt of one young woman while he was on duty and in uniform.

Dwyer, a former fireman, had approached the victim, who was squatting down, while on duty in his high-visibility police uniform, claiming to be investigating a crime, Manchester Crown Court heard.

He also filmed up the skirts of women in takeaways, stood below customers queuing up the steps of a nightclub, and sidled up to groups of women waiting for taxis.

Dwyer, of Sunnybank Close, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, is suspended from his job as a constable with Greater Manchester Police, where he has worked for 13 years.

Yesterday he was given a three-year community order after admitting two counts of voyeurism and 10 counts of outraging public decency over a seven-month period between October 1, 2013 and May 15, 2014.

His la w y er Pat r ick Thompson apologised on the defendant’s behalf to Judge Robert Atherton about setting off fire alarms and escaping the press on Friday.

Mr Thompson added: “He is at the moment a figure of national shame and did not want it to get any worse.”

Judge Atherton told Dwyer he had deliberately targeted young female students out enjoying themselves in Chester, Warrington and Manchester.

He added: “You chose to go at a time when students were likely to be on the streets and perhaps in conditions when they would not realise or properly interpret what you were doing.”

The judge warned Dwyer he would be jailed immediately if he did not leave court through the front door.