Tube pervert used homemade hidden camera to film up skirts of 34 commuters

Pervert: Martin Seaman was caught on the Piccadilly Line
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Mark Chandler9 December 2016
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A Tube pervert has been handed a suspended sentence after using a homemade camera hidden in a glasses case to film up the skirts of 34 women.

Martin Seaman roamed the Underground system, placing his camera between women's legs to snap the filthy footage.

The 55-year-old, of Rectory Road, Dagenham, was snared by undercover police who saw him acting oddly on the Piccadilly Line.

Officers noticed that, each time he got on board a train, it was behind a woman wearing a short skirt or dress.

Following him onto a train, they noticed him sliding his rucksack with a camera sticking out of the top between a victim's legs.

When he was arrested, shocked officers discovered he had created the camera himself using a phone battery and a glasses case.

After downloading the contents of his camera, they found a hoard of 17 videos showing upskirt footage of 34 women.

Checks revealed Seaman had previously been banned from travelling on the Underground with a camera.

On Wednesday at Blackfriars Crown Court, he was handed an eight-month sentence for breaching that order, and another eight months after admitting outraging public decency. Both were suspended for two years.

Officer in charge of the investigation PC Graham Evans, from British Transport Police, said: “This man clearly set out with an aim to use his own homemade device that he had created for this vile purpose to pry on women in an extremely intrusive way."

Siwan Hayward, TfL’s Head of Transport Policing, said: “No one should be subjected to unwanted sexual behaviour and anyone who does experience it should report it immediately.

"It is due to the hard work with our policing colleagues, including specialist investigations and increasing presence, that this man was caught and convicted."

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