A “dirty-minded person”, Peter Hartley, the Uxbridge Sex Offender, who concealed a spy camera in the ladies’ restrooms of the studios where a James Bond was being filmed has been arrested.
Convicted sex offender Peter Hartley tried to capture women in the lavatory on June 21 behind a grill in the WCs at Pinewood Studios using a tiny camera set off by motion and vibration.
Peter Hartley, a maintenance man hired as a freelancer working on No Time to Die, was seen using a screwdriver off the grill after noticing the light reflecting off the lens like “to light reflecting off the face of a watch”.
Friday, September 6, 2019, saw him imprisoned at Aylesbury Crown Court for sixteen months; he will be on the sex offender register for ten years.
Having a history of similar offences going back to 2008, Hartley later that morning called his public protection officer at the Met Police to inform him he had reoffended.
Peter Hartley had convictions for installing cameras in a leisure centre’s changing facilities in 2016 and for cameras in a Coventry council office in 2009.
Though after his first conviction, he asked for 113 offences to be taken into account, the 50-year-old has three convictions overall for eight offences.
Police asked him why he had left the gadget in the Pinewood toilets: “I suppose sexual gratification is the main reason – as I’ve learnt from my past whenever something bad or stressful happens. Act out.”
Peter Hartley of Uxbridge claimed his partner had been in hospital getting cancer tests when he committed the crime.
Just eight months before reoffending, Hartley had finished a sex offender rehabilitation program, claiming it had made him sicker by “opening a Pandora’s box” in his imagination.
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