![]() "I would like to thank all of the companies that have assisted and supported the police through this investigation, particularly Thomas' former employers who were pivotal in helping us to identify him. "Thomas' offending was extraordinary, not just because of the sheer numbers of people he filmed but also due to the highly organised way, in which he saved, stored and filed the footage. Thomas was identified as the suspect in the footage and arrested.ĭetective Constable Sarah Gardner of Southwark Borough said "The images of unsuspecting people going about their daily business, and having their privacy breached in this way was appalling". Officers attended the nearest coffee shop and discovered a second camera hidden in the customer toilet. Scotland Yard began inquiries and found the device contained footage of the suspect planting equipment and images which they recognised as being filmed in a coffee shop chain. ![]() ![]() Thomas worked as a manager at global professional services firm Ernst & Young, where in March this year a female colleague found a device in the company's shower room. "This case is undoubtedly a sophisticated, organised, planned and long-running campaign of voyeurism the scale of which, the court is told, is beyond any previously encountered by the Metropolitan Police," said Judge Jeremy Donne. The 38-year-old, who is married with a child and lived in Greenwich area of south London, filmed more than 3,500 people, including some children and babies, over a six-year period starting in 2009, London Crown Court revealed this week. George Thomas installed recording devices in bedrooms and bathrooms in his own home, shower rooms and lavatories at his work place and bathrooms in a large number of coffee shops in central London. ![]() LONDON: A UK-based Indian-origin accountant has been jailed for four years as he pleaded guilty to 15 counts for offences, including acts of voyeurism and taking obscene photographs of children after he was found to have put up secret cameras in various locations across London. ![]()
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