Mobile phone sex voyeur is jailed

A lodger who covertly used his mobile phone to film his landlord having sex has been jailed for nine months.

Scott Jones, 33, of Chelmer Road, Medway, Kent, had filmed the couple at a house in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

The couple, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had come in from a night out and left the bedroom door ajar.

Jones was convicted of two charges of voyeurism at Peterborough Crown Court on 13 July and sentenced at Doncaster Crown Court.

The landlord became suspicious of Jones after sensing someone at the door and later took his mobile phone while he slept.

'Private matters'

He found and downloaded the 10-minute footage, which was earlier shown to a jury at Peterborough Crown Court, onto his computer before wiping it from Jones's mobile phone and contacting the police.

Jones had pleaded not guilty to two charges of voyeurism, claiming the couple had asked him to film them and have sex with them. The pair denied this.

Defending, Alison Summers said: "I accept there was a recording which was above simple spying but there is no evidence the footage was distributed or shown."

But Judge Jacqueline Davies said the "gross invasion of privacy" of the pair and the "considerable amount of embarrassment" caused to them by being called in to court to reveal such "private matters about themselves" had to be taken into account.

She said the two complainants had "robustly" denied any suggestion they were in any way consenting or involved in any activity with Jones and that after seeing the film this was very apparent.

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