Border Force officer who secretly filmed women in toilets at ports with his girlfriend’s help jailed
A BORDER Force officer who secretly filmed women in toilets at ferry ports with his girlfriend’s help has been jailed.
Neil Adams and Stephanie Whitehead, both 40, made recordings of women by hiding mobile phones in loos and also changing rooms.
They filmed victims using the toilets at the Port of Calais and Dunkirk Port in France.
The couple, who have a young son, were caught when a woman spotted a hidden phone after using a toilet with her young child.
Police identified 12 victims, some of whom now avoid using toilets for fear of being filmed.
The sick footage found when police raided the couple’s home in Ashford, Kent, also included women in the changing rooms of clothes stores and a pool.
Adams, sacked from his job, was jailed for 28 months after admitting voyeurism and an unrelated 2014 sexual assault.
Whitehead also admitted voyeurism but got suspended jail and unpaid work after Canterbury crown court heard she was “drawn in” to his perversion.
Prosecutor Kieran Brand said the couple were eventually reported after a woman spotted a phone hidden inside a towel whilst using a toilet with her young child.
“The victim reports that as she bent down to pull up the child’s underwear she saw the sunlight on a camera lens,” he explained.
“She had located a mobile phone wrapped in a microfibre towel, facing the lavatory.
“She saw that the phone screen was displaying what the camera was viewing and the red light showed it was recording.”