A SEXUAL deviant secretly recorded men using the loo in Aldi toilets and kept a vile stash of hundreds of videos.
Chleo Sunter, 37, secretly recorded and photographed men in a number of locations across Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire.
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They were taken at an Aldi supermarket and the Captain Cook Square shopping centre in Middlesbrough, and also at Darlington’s railway station.
Sunter was caught with 790 pictures and 15 videos of men inside toilet cubicles and standing at urinals.
The footage and pictures were all captured between January and November 2023.
Sunter, who was previously convicted of sexual assault in 2012 when named John Leslie Graham, admitted the offences at Teeside Crown Court.
The offender was also convicted of possession of extreme pornographic images, in 2014.
Sunter’s latest offending was uncovered by a sexual harm prevention order manager who was assessing whether a previously issued order was being obeyed.
Paul Newcombe, prosecuting, said: “Some of the males were stood at the urinals. Some were recorded under the cubicles.”
Sunter was sentenced to 26 months in prison after admitting the charges.
Sunter pleaded guilty to two counts of voyeurism; “recording a person doing a private act with the intention that she herself, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, would look at the image of this person knowing they did not consent to her recording the act” between January and November 2023.
The vile creep also admitted six breaches of a sexual harm prevention order.
Sunter was caught with the material when their sex offender manager was making checks on compliance with a previous court order.
Sunter had also breached the sex offender order by using a phone in incognito mode and resetting it to factory settings.
John Nixon, for Sunter, said the defendant “no longer has a phone or laptop with internet access”.
Mr Nixon also told the court that Sunter had already spent eight months in prison on remand after admitting some of the offences at rgw magistrate’s court.
Teeside Crown Court heard that Sunter has a history of alcohol abuse.
Mr Nixon described the period of imprisonment as “exceptionally challenging” for Sunter.
Sunter’s barrister asked the judge to consider a court order instead of prison.
He argued that Sunter would face homelessness when released after losing accomodation.
Judge Geoffrey Marson said he was aware of Sunter’s mental health difficulties and “particular circumstances, but they have little, or no affect on the offences.”
Sunter had pleaded guilty to two counts of voyeurism and six breaches of the sexual harm prevention order.
It comes as the government has refused to force police to record biological sex instead of criminals’ self-declared gender.
Criminals have been given free reign to pick the gender of their choosing despite an independent review urging Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, to order police to collect data on biological sex instead.
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