Football coach secretly filmed two young girls undress
22.03.2022 - 19:57
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A football coach has been jailed after he secretly filmed two girls undressing. Ian Nickson, 59, of Burns Road, Little Hulton, pleaded guilty to three counts of voyeurism relating to three separate videos of two young girls.
Nickson had made three sets of recordings, two involving the same girl as she was in the bath or shower, with the other set of videos recording a girl changing. David Lees, prosecuting, told Manchester Crown Square that Nickson had secretly filmed his first victim twice.
When police first spoke to him, he told officers there might be a video of the girl on his phone. However, when officers examined the device, a video from a different occasion involving the same girl was actually discovered.
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No footage from the third incident, involving the second victim, has been recovered. Nickson initially denied filming his second victim but, when speaking to police, said he had viewed the video and “felt ashamed” so had deleted it, before denying he had a sexual interest in children.
According to Mr Lees, the first victim told her mum she’d spotted a phone as she was about to get into the shower and thought it might have been recording her, but her mum assured her the well-respected coach had probably just left his phone in the bathroom. However, when a second victim came forward several years later, the woman realised she had been mistaken. It is something which she has struggled to come to terms with, the hearing heard.
In a victim impact statement read to the court, the mother of the first victim said she felt “devastated and sick”. She said her daughter was “not coping well” with the news that Nickson had in fact