Skegness Magazine

Source: Skegness Standard 1997

JAILED - man filmed up-skirts shots of model on hidden camera

A MAN who secretly filmed up the skirt of a model, using a hidden video camera, has been jailed.
Anthony Harrison Tinsley, who had committed previous similar offences, was sent to prison for three months by Skegness magistrates who heard that the camera was hidden in a piece of lighting equipment.
The court heard that Tinsley filmed women at a Skegness modelling agency, but while his camera was recording one of them dancing, another camera was strategically placed to covertly film up her skirt.

Modelling agency

Tinsley, 42, of Dogdyke Road, New York, had previously pleaded guilty to using towards another person threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour, likely to provoke that person into the use of unlawful violence. After reading reports, the magistrates jailed Tinsley and confiscated the lighting equipment.
Prosecuting, Mr Nicholas Alderson said Tinsley contacted the agency and asked for models to be provided for him to film at the agency’s premises.
He took some video recordings of the models and asked for a further test shoot with models the following week. On that occasion he took with him a piece of lighting equipment which contained a video recorder

Challenged

A model was dancing for Tinsley on stage when the agency proprietor challenged him and found the camera hidden inside the lighting equipment.
The camera was pointing up the skirt of the model which was wholly outside the agreement that had been entered into, said Mr Alderson.
The young lady involved was upset by the discovery of the camera, he said.
Tinsley had been in court in 1986 for committing a nuisance by using a video camea to film up skirts. He had also been fined £120 by Lincoln magistrates for a byelaw offence after being caught holding a mirror on the ground beneath women’s skirts, said Mr Alderson.
Had problem
For Tinsley, Mr Hugh Connolly said his client clearly had a problem. “It is not a problem that he ignores, he wants to stop,’ said Mr Connolly.
“He clearly can’t do it on his own. He needs professional help. He has had this problem for 25 years,” he said.

Open-crotch Knickerless Shots

Mr Connolly said the girls involved should take comfort from the fact that there were no open crotch or knickerless shots in circulation as a result of the film sessions.
Tinsley was not a danger to the public at large, he said.
Mr Connolly asked the Bench not to confiscate the video recorder as it was valued at £1,229