Article – The Telegraph
Adam Dennis and Robert Morgan “hunted” for teenage girls and shared pictures online
TELEGRAPH REPORTERS – 25 APRIL 2024
A gang of voyeurs hid in mixed gender changing rooms at swimming pools to secretly film more than 5,000 young women undressing, a court heard.
Adam Dennis, 39, and Robert Morgan, 33, “hunted” for teenage girls and made catalogues of their pictures to share and trade online.
Dennis made “profile documents” of his victims using social media and swimming pool club records, the court heard.
Inner London Crown Court heard the gang operated at pools in East London and Surrey for more than four years between April 2013 and November 2017.
Miguel Jose Sainz and Declan Golden, who police believe are also part of the gang, are still being sought in connection with the case.
Morgan, of Hammersmith, west London, and Dennis, of Littlehampton, West Sussex, both admitted voyeurism and making indecent photos.
Dennis was jailed for 22 months while Morgan, who describes himself as a part-time musician and webcast producer, was sentenced to 20 months, suspended for two years.
Judge Benedict Kelleher told the two men: “You engaged both of you in a conspiracy which involved two other men as well.
“It aimed at obtaining images of women and girls getting undressed in changing rooms principally in swimming pools, and then storing them, editing them, sharing them with each other and in your case Mr Dennis matching them up with other information you had discovered about the women that you were photographing.
“Both of you, it appears, regularly went to those places with covert photographic equipment and spent many hours hiding in changing rooms waiting to photograph women and girls who came into the adjacent changing room or cubicle.”
‘Hunting’ missions
The court heard the pair discussed going with other conspirators to swimming pools, and referred to it as “hunting”.
“The scope of this was frankly enormous. Both of you were frequently visiting locations and taking pictures, and it’s suggested by prosecution creating… 5,000 separate sets of images,” the judge added.
Their activities were only discovered when police raided Sainz’s home in March 2017 and found thousands of pictures on his devices.
Dennis and Morgan were both arrested on 22 Nov 2017.
The court heard the defendants and co-conspirators would enter a changing cubicle at some point during the day and close the door and used hidden cameras to film young women through the partition.
Prosecutor Kate Temple-Mabe said: “They would select their preferred content, then edit the films they particularly liked into short videos.
“They discussed a usual interest in something they refer to as ‘OT’. This is a reference to older teens, referring to teenage girls who were old enough to be post-pubescent but maybe younger than 18.”…