Sex offender jailed for filming women in toilets at Pinewood Studios
Written by News on 07/09/2019
A sex offender has been jailed for trying to film women on the toilet at the studios where the latest Bond film is being made.
Peter Hartley concealed a spy camera with motion sensors behind a grill in the women’s cubicles at Pinewood Studios on 21 June.
The 50-year-old maintenance worker was caught when a young freelancer working on No Time To Die discovered the camera.
She saw the light reflecting from the lens – which Hartley had tried to cover with tape – and used a screwdriver to take off the grill.
He was jailed for 16 months and put on the sex offenders register for 10 years after being convicted at Aylesbury Crown Court.
Asked why he had planted the device, he told police: “I suppose sexual gratification is the main reason – as I’ve learned from my past whenever something bad or stressful happens I act out.”
Hartley has a string of previous convictions for placing cameras in a council building in Coventry in 2009 and another in changing rooms at a leisure centre in 2016.
He has a total of three convictions for eight offences, although asked for 113 offences to be taken into consideration at his first conviction.
Hartley contacted his public protection officer at the Met Police the morning he placed the device at Pinewood to say he had reoffended.
He his partner had been in hospital undergoing tests for cancer at the time.
Hartley pleaded guilty to one count of voyeurism at Milton Keynes Magistrates’ Court.
The young woman who found the camera said in a victim impact statement that she had suffered from severe anxiety and been left traumatised by the incident.
“I am not eating or sleeping properly and I don’t feel safe anywhere – I check the whole house for cameras,” she said.
“I don’t doubt that I will check every bathroom I go into for the rest of my life.”
She added: “I don’t believe [the defendant] has any remorse, this was a deliberate act using high definition, wide angle and vibration triggered equipment.
“He knew exactly what he was doing and must have seen the damage [to the victims] last time.”
Hartley had previously completed a sex offenders rehabilitation programme but re-offended just eight months later, saying the course had opened a “Pandora’s box” in his mind.
Irfan Arif, defending Hartley, said his client was remorseful and realised he needed further help and guidance.
But Judge Francis Sheridan said the victim’s life had been “devastated by a dirty-minded individual who preys on women using the lavatory where he can compromise them”.
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