Posted on 04/27/2005 7:06:34 PM PDT by saquin
A man who secretly set up a home video camera to film his wife in the bath avoided a jail sentence yesterday.
Magistrates at Yate, near Bristol, were told the 55-year-old husband had linked the bathroom camera to a television in the couple's bedroom for "sexual gratification".
His wife unwittingly discovered the camera, installed in the ceiling, after she turned on the television and saw her naked husband in the bath, said Jan Fish, prosecuting.
After confronting her husband about the camera, she left the house. On her return, she found a recorded confession in which her husband admitted setting up the camera to watch her in the bath. She called the police and her husband was arrested.
The man told police he had purchased and installed a closed circuit television camera in the bathroom. Mrs Fish said: "His reason for doing this was for watching his wife in the bath and he had planned to watch them together in the bath for their sexual gratification."
The man, who pleaded guilty to three counts of voyeurism, was sentenced to a nine-month community rehabilitation order.
Debbie Bakehouse, defending, said the wife had thrown her husband out of the home they shared in a village in South Gloucestershire and was now filing for divorce.
"He understands he should have got his wife's consent before this took place."
The man was ordered to pay £130 costs and an order was made to destroy the surveillance and recording equipment. The offence of voyeurism entered English law in the 2003 Sexual Offences Act. The man cannot be named to protect his wife's identity.
Gee, ya think? ;-P
I'll have to remember not to do this with my bathroom camera.
Thank God all my hidden cameras are in the bedroom...
? huh?
? they're married, right?
? she called the cops?
? are they divorced now?
Lets see now.
He is 55 and is married to the gal and has to put up a hidden camera to see her nekkid.
Lets see, lets seeeeeeeeeeeeee.
There are very, very few 55 year old women that I would care to see naked.
LOL! Well, at least your screen name is fitting for this thread.
You would think a woman that old would be flattered that her husband finds her that sexy.
Maybe the Mrs. was taking a bath with her boyfriend and he wanted to catch them in the act?
I've always considered baths to be a big waste of time. You take one, and three or four months later it's time to take another.
OMG I almost choked to death *LOL*
I know many deeply frustrated 55 year old women who would be THRILLED to have a man this interested in them.
So, IOW, you're pretty sure there are a few worthy of a look?
Yet another Paris Hilton moment...
That is a good one!
Wrong, Brother!
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