Voyeur’s bid to to film woman
A computer repairer stashed a secret camera in the bathroom of a woman before she showered.
Pensioner Sydney Berry admitted hiding the tiny spy camera in a medicine box but claimed he did it as a joke.
However, a jury at Canterbury Crown Court rejected his account and convicted him of voyeurism. He will be sentenced next month.
Wheelchair-bound Berry, 67, of Butt Field Road, Singleton – who denied the charge – said it wasn’t done for sexual reasons, claiming he was impotent.
His victim told the jury: “I was shocked. I was dumbstruck. I didn’t know what to say. At first I thought I was seeing things and I immediately grabbed my towel.
“Then I returned to the box because I was curious. I didn’t think it looked right. I opened it.
“Once I realised it was a camera, I knew I needed to speak to someone.” A 20-year-old woman has been found dead just weeks after being convicted of assaulting her ex-boyfriend.
Shannon Killick’s lifeless body was pulled from the River Medway on Monday evening.
Miss Killick had recently been handed a suspended prison sentence after attacking her then boyfriend with a dog chain in East Malling.
She was also due to appear in court this week accused of stealing four cans of beer from Morrisons in Maidstone.
Ex- boyfriend Samuel Watson, of Tyler Close, refused to give evidence against the former Aylesford School – Sports College student after she drunkenly lashed out at him.
Neighbours were forced to step in to stop her smashing Mr Watson’s head with a granite block after she wasn’t allowed to stay the night.
She wrapped a metal dog lead around her fist and whipped him over the head.
Although Mr Watson refused to testify against her at Maidstone Magistrates’ Court in May, Miss Killick, who expressed genuine remorse, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 60 days in prison suspended for a year. She was also subject to a 12-month restraining order forbidding her to go near the family’s home and had been given a community order last year for fraud and theft.
Miss Killick, of Riding Lane, Hildenborough, was recovered from the Medway at the back of Tonbridge Sportsground off Avesbury Avenue.
Staff from Aylesford School - Sports College, in Teapot Lane, said they were ‘deeply saddened’ by the young woman’s death, describing it as ‘untimely and tragic’.