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Mall security catches up-skirt cameraman
Northlands Mall security staff stepped in when surveillance cameras caught 27-year-old Maurice Hemi Williams taking cellphone photographs up two women?s skirts.
He told police he was taking the pictures ?to send to a friend?. He was also very sorry, the court was told when Williams pleaded guilty at a charge of making an intimate visual recording.
He also admitted charges of breaching community work and breaching a protection order, at a Christchurch District Court session inside the men?s prison today.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Dave Murray said that Williams went to the mall with his camera cellphone about 4pm on May 1.
He went to the cosmetics department in the Farmers store where he went up to a woman who was bending over, and with the cellphone camera he reached under the woman?s skirt and took a photograph.
He then walked away and stopped to look at the photograph on his phone.
When he found it was blurred, he approached the same woman and took three more photographs on his phone, all under her skirt.
Williams then approached another woman in the health and beauty department and while she was looking away he bent down and took a photograph under her skirt.
His behaviour was recorded on a security camera and he was caught by security staff at the mall.
He explained that he did not know either woman and was taking the photographs to send to a friend. He said he was sorry for his behaviour.
Judge Gary MacAskill remanded him in custody for sentence.
