A love-starved hair stylist with industry giants ASOS planted a secret camera in the gents’ toilet of their huge 2,000-guest summer party.
Dominic Henbow Hendy, 28, a graduate of styling and hair design from Truro and Penwith College, Cornwall claims a twelve-month dating drought and lack of intimacy led to him hiding the device behind toilet rolls to film the cubicle’s users.
Hendy, who attended The Roseland Academy, Tregony pleaded guilty to voyeurism, namely installing equipment to observe others for his sexual gratification, at Hawker House, a food and drink mega-market in Canary Wharf on July 12.
“He was without sexual contact for a year and felt stressed and was not thinking straight,” Hendy’s lawyer Mr. Alexander Goscimski told London’s Camberwell Green Magistrates Court.
Prosecutor Mr. Chidi Ikwuakolam said: “A cleaner at the event was routinely cleaning the men’s toilet and came across a small black box on the floor and handed it into a security guard, assuming it was lost property.
“By 2am the manager realised it was a camera that’d been put carefully on the floor of one of the one-person cubicles and purposefully obstructed with toilet rolls.
“It showed full-frontal views of people using the toilet and the defendant was identified as the person who placed the camera in the location.”
Probation Officer Patrick Acres told the court: “Prior to this offence he had been in a relationship and when that ended it sent him into a spiral of anxiety.
“He did look around for casual relationships, but did not find that satisfactory and for the last twelve months has been celibate.
“One way of coping was to self-medicate with drugs, including ketamine and crystal meth.
“These drugs lower inhibitions quite drastically and there was some use of pornography and with the drugs that led him down this route of setting-up the camera.
“He says he now feels quite sick about it and it is something he would never do again, but came about due to his isolation and taking these drugs.”
Mr. Goscimski added: “It is a shame he is here today. He has been struggling with anxiety and depression and is on medication.
“He purchased the camera because things were going missing from his room. He lives in shared accommodation and there were no locks on the doors.”
ASOS placed Hendy, of Bow Road, Bow, east London on suspension while awaiting the outcome of the case.
He was placed on a twelve-month community order, which includes 150 hours community service work and must pay £85 costs and an £85 victim surcharge.
Hendy must also sign the sex offenders register for five years.
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