Former Ernst & Young Executive Arrested In Largest Voyeur Case in English History

There is a truly bizarre case out of London where a former Ernst & Young manager was sentenced in what is viewed as largely voyeur case in the country’s history. Some 3,500 people were filmed by George Thomas, 38, who installed cameras 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.

Thomas wired up an elaborate system of surveillance to allow him to put together compilations of people walking in public areas and then in different bathrooms. This was all created over a six-year period that began in 2009. It all came to an end when a female colleague found a device in the shower room. The device had a memory card and captured Thomas’ face in the act of hiding the device. His arrest yielded more cameras and memory cards.

The Indian national is married with one child.

Clearly this bizarre conduct was treated as a fetish rather than a mental illness by the court.

He was sentenced to four years and given a Sexual Harm Prevention order for 10 years. The sentence may seem a bit light given the huge number of victims over such a long period of time. Such surveillance can have serious emotional impacts on people. It is always difficult to decided whether the sentence should reflect the number of insular crimes or victims or whether it should be treated as a pattern of similar offenses. Making this calculation all the more difficult is the fact that multiple cameras were used at multiple locations over a decade.

Do you view that sentence as sufficient for a crime that ran for such a long time and victimized thousands of people?

Source: Telegraph