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Man Caught Filming Up Women's Skirts On Train By Off-duty Police Officer
By Lydia Smith
A man who was caught filming up women’s skirts using a hidden camera has been sentenced.
Andrew Macrae, a former vice president of the entertainment company Live Nation, has amassed nearly 50,000 images of strangers for his sexual gratifica- tion.
Police uncovered a hard drive at the 43-year-old’s home containing images dating back to July 2013.
Macrae was handed a 20- month suspend- ed sentence at Inner London Cro wn Court on Friday after pleading guilty to seven counts of voyeurism and one count of out-
raging public decency.
He was also placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for ten years and ordered to partic- ipate in a 60-day sexual offenders' rehabilitation pro- gram.
Mr Macrae was caught by an off- duty detective inspector for
the Metropolitan Police, who notice the former executive using a camera disguised as a pen to film up the skirts
of female com- muters.
The officer chal-
lenged Macrae, escorted him off the train and arrested him for voyeurism.
A search of Macrae's home address and work subse- quently revealed a data storage device which contained a large volume of
voyeuristic mate- rial, including covert "up skirt" photographs and videos.
He had pho- tographed and filmed more than 130 women on public transport and knew two of his victims per- sonally, who he had been filming
for sustained period of time.
Detective Inspector Driss Hayoukane,who spotted Macrae's actions on the train, said: “Macrae's despi- cable actions constituted a gross breach of trust against his victims.
“As well as mem- bers of the public travelling to work, Macrae targeted victims he knew person- ally, over a sus- tained period of time, for his own sexual gratifica- tion.
“This case demonstrates the vigilance of our officers in pre- venting criminals whose crimes are of such a gross and decep- tive nature.”
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