Voyeur secretly filmed women disrobing

A guesthouse owner who set up a secret spy camera hidden within a bedside alarm clock so he could film women undressing has been placed on the sex offenders register.

Police discovered footage of three different female victims when they raided Liam Elliott’s property in Keith on another matter, Inverness Sheriff Court was told.

He also had a video of a couple engaged in sexual activity – which police established had been consensually filmed but Elliott had somehow obtained without their knowledge or consent.

Elliott, 35, now of Union Street, Larkhall, appeared before Sheriff Ian Cruickshank and admitted three charges of voyeurism and two sex offences relating to his unauthorised possession of the sex video between May 1 2019 and September 30 2020.

The court heard police raided the property after receiving intelligence that the occupier had indecent images of children.

None were found, but officers recovered videos of three women dressing and undressing in a bedroom.

Fiscal depute Robert Weir said two of Elliott’s phones had been seized and a bedside alarm clock with a camera inside was also found.

It was on this camera that the videos of the three women, dressing and undressing before they got in and out of bed, were discovered.

The sex video was also retrieved.

Mr Weir said there were indications that it had been shared on the internet by the husband and wife, who knew Elliott, but it was not known how he had come into possession of it and he did not have the couple’s permission.

Sentence was deferred until June 19 for reports and bail was continued.