A perverted voyeur used a hidden camera to secretly film nude women in the changing rooms of Crosby Leisure Centre.
Tyler Rogers, 22, concealed his phone in a black sock with a hole in it before sliding it under the door of a cubicle where a 15-year-old girl was changing at around 9.45am on May 25 2023. The girl noticed what was happening and went to her mother's cubicle in tears.
As the mother reported what had happened to the leisure centre staff, she noticed a man dressed all in black leaving the facility.
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CCTV images of the man were circulated within Merseyside Police, and Rogers was arrested at Crosby Beach five days later.
His house was searched, and mobile phones, cameras, a Playstation console and a black sock with a hole in it were seized.
At Liverpool Crown Court today, June 29, prosecutor Louise McClusky said: "The phone was found to contain both videos and images of unsuspecting females and female children, which also included four short videos of the victim.
"The angle of the phone clearly showed it had been placed under the cubicle door in order to capture naked images. Eighteen screenshots had been taken from the recordings showing her undressing and wearing bikini bottoms."
She said the girl had been plagued with anxiety following the incident as she feared the videos of her would be shared with others.
She said: "She described feeling scared and petrified. She was panicking and couldn't control her breath. It was the most scared she had been in her life."
It was revealed the 15-year-old was not Rogers' only victim, as pictures and recordings of seven other females in various stages of undress were discovered on his phone. All recordings, including one of a mother talking to her two young children, were taken in the Crosby Leisure Centre changing rooms between May 12 and May 25 2023.
Rogers, from Crosby, pleaded guilty to eight counts of voyeurism and one count of making an indecent image of a child. He also admitted possession of a class B drug, cannabis, which he was carrying when he was arrested.
Jeremy Rawson, defending, said Rogers had no idea his final victim was just 15, and that he denied having any attraction to children.
He said the 22-year-old, who appeared in court with his hair shaved off, would be made homeless on his release from prison as social services had ordered him not to return to the family home, where his two young siblings live.
He said: "In some ways he welcomes it because it means facing up to what he has done, facing up to his drug use, and making amends for what he has done.
"He will be, in effect, a pariah in the area when he is released. He will have to move himself to another part of the country and hope his past does not catch up with him."
Addressing Rogers, Judge Gary Woodhall said: "You engaged in predatory behaviour towards females in these changing rooms... a gross invasion of your victims' privacy. They were entitled to feel secure in that space and you have breached and damaged that security.
"The offending was planned and you engaged in it for your own sexual gratification without any thought for the impact on your victims."
He sentenced Rogers to 16 months in prison and a 10-year sexual harm prevention order.
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