Paedophile who used hidden camera to film girls changing at swimming pools is jailed

Jimmy Nsubuga Yahoo News UKMay 2, 2020, 12:09 PM EDT

A paedophile who used a hidden camera to film women and young girls changing at swimming pools has been jailed.

Laurence Wheeler, 32, was also prosecuted after inciting a young girl to carry out indecent acts with him.

He admitted to possessing more than 500 indecent images of children, five counts of voyeurism and two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity over a three-year period.

Wheeler was given a six-year sentence with an extended licence supervision period of a further two years when he appeared by video link at Hove Crown Court on Thursday.

Sussex Police first arrested Wheeler at a property in New Addington, Croydon, in May last year after intelligence about indecent images of children was obtained by officers.

They found the hundreds of child abuse images, plus videos filmed with a phone hidden in a bathroom at an address in Hove in 2017 showing three women.

Videos of children filmed under the partition in changing rooms at a swimming pool in London were also found. Officers also obtained messages from Wheeler to a young girl with two videos showing indecent acts, which were filmed in 2018.

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