Sex dungeon secret of helicopter PC who spied on sunbathers

THE sordid secrets of a policeman facing jail for spying from the force helicopter on naked sunbathers and a couple having sex have been revealed.

Four colleagues were cleared of similar offences by a jury at Sheffield Crown Court yesterday.

But the case exposed PC Adrian Pogmore, 51, as a ‘sex- obsessed peeping Tom’ who took his seedy personal life to work at the South Yorkshire force.

The divorced father of two was a self-confessed ‘swinger’ and naturist, and was dubbed the ‘team deviant’ by colleagues. But Pogmore’s former wife and ex-partner had no idea he was cheating on them by indulging in the ‘swinging scene’.

His haunts were said to include La Chambre in Sheffield, described on its explicit website as ‘the premier swinging club in Great Britain purpose-built for the hedonistic enjoyment of liberated couples and singles’.

Situated in a former pub, the premises boast a ‘dungeon’ and kama sutra room, along Obsessed: Adrian Pogmore with a sauna and a variety of ‘playrooms’ for like-minded adults to indulge in orgies.

Members pay £20 per couple, or £5 for a single female, to enjoy a swinging session. Around 250 couples are said to travel from across the UK to take part at weekends.

Pogmore also pursued his sexual fantasies on a website called Fabswingers.

The pervert policeman, who pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office, admitted regularly filming X-rated closeup video of unsuspecting members of the public from the £2million force helicopter for his sexual gratification. Pogmore had become friendly with a married couple living in his home town of Rotherham, who frequented La Chambre.

During summer they had weekly sex sessions in their back garden. It was here that the pair, in their 40s, had sex on a clear July day in 2008 as Pogmore watched and filmed from above.

The Wescam MX-15 camera attached to the aircraft is among the most sophisticated in the world and capable of reading a number plate from two miles away. So the colour monitors inside the helicopter left nothing to the imagination.

The wife was naked and her husband was wearing only a Manchester United top. Both enjoyed ‘putting on a show’, the court heard, and Pogmore subsequently handed the husband a DVD of the footage.

The couple have now left the swinging scene, but had no qualms at the time about being recorded having sex.

But naturists at a rural camp site were filmed without their knowledge sunbathing, and were horrified when the footage came to light. Colin Wood, owner of the Candy Farm camp site for naturists, said: ‘It’s a shock that a police officer would do it.’

Other people filmed sunbathing naked by Pogmore included a former model.

In October 2014 his ex-wife reported him to police for having a sex tape taken from the helicopter.

He was sacked in March 2015 for gross misconduct, but forgot to empty his personal drawer at work.

His stash of ‘peeping Tom’ recordings were found, leading to the prosecution of Pogmore and his four colleagues.

Two pilots and two police observers, who were on board with him during the four flights when the illicit filming took place over a five-year period, were found not guilty of the same offence. They claimed to have no idea what Pogmore was up to as they patrolled the skies in search of criminals. Matthew Lucas, 42, Lee Walls, 47, Matthew Loosemore, 45, and Malcolm Reeves, 64, were all cleared after a 15-day trial.

A police spokesman said that despite the not guilty verdicts, disciplinary proceedings would continue against the four officers.

Pogmore is due to be sentenced on Tuesday.

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