Train station pervert filmed up schoolgirls' skirts as they travelled home
04.03.2024 - 21:59
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A pervert has been jailed after he was caught filming up schoolgirls' skirts as they travelled home.
On May 11 last year, James Rudge, 41, was spotted by three teenage girls at Knutsford station crouched down near the steps with his phone filming the ground before turning the phone the other way round.
The girls reported the incident to the British Transport Police and Rudge was identified from CCTV. On arrest at his home address officers searched the property and recovered his mobile phone.
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On examination the phone revealed numerous upskirting images as well as other more extreme images. When presented with the evidence Rudge pleaded guilty to five counts of voyeurism, two counts of making indecent images of a child and one count of possessing extreme pornographic images.
Following a British Transport Police investigation Rudge, of Canute Place, Knutsford, was jailed for 18 months at Chester Crown Court on Tuesday, February 27. He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register and issued with a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years after. He must also pay a £187 victim surcharge.
The SHPO forbids Rudge from taking a photo or video in a public place; possessing any device which stores images; installing any encryption software on any device; using the cloud or any other remote storage media and from having any unsupervised contact with a child under 16.
Investigating officer DC Marsha Selby said: "Thanks to the bravery of the young girls coming forward and immediately reporting Rudge, officers unravelled his secret life and the horrifying extent of his perversion.
"We will stop at nothing to deter, pursue, arrest and bring sex