A pharmaceutical expert, who uploaded ‘upskirt’ video clips he recorded of women on the London Underground to an adult website, was jailed for eight months yesterday.
Father-of-two Sanjayan Nadarajah, 43, hid his mobile phone in his laptop bag to film young female commuters, plus shoppers and women in shop changing rooms.
He claims his business has been ruined after his sordid habit was exposed, with contracts within the industry cancelled and postponed.
“The offences you committed were very numerous and were active and with forty-six videos of upskirting publicly available on the web,” Blackfriars Crown Court Judge Peter Clarke QC told him.
“I don’t understand why you decided to to make them available to anyone on the internet. That’s what makes these offences troubling and shocking.”
The pharmaceutical quality consultant, who has a chemistry degree and lives in a £775,000 home at
Shelvers Way, Tadworth, Surrey was hunted down by British Transport Police (BTP).
Officers discovered the online clips and traced Nadarajah - known as ‘MonkeyMan9’ - when the adult site disclosed his email address to the police.
He pleaded guilty to five counts of outraging public decency between May 17 and July 19, last year.
Nadarajah also pleaded guilty to two counts of voyeurism between January 1 and May 12.
Prosecutor Mr. Paul Rattigan told the court today: “The BTP were contacted by a member of police staff who reported that there were photos and video sequences of upskirting female members of the public travelling on the London Underground.
“Images were taken of their genital area by a covert camera by another passenger.”
Forty-six publicly-available upskirt video clips were posted by Nadarajah, plus another eleven were accessible with a password.
“The forty-six were visible to anyone in the wide world who had an interest in that sort of material,” said Mr. Rattigan.
During the investigation eleven more clips were uploaded after Nadarajah filmed up women’s skirts on an escalator at Lakeside Shopping Centre, plus more on the Underground.
He was arrested on October 9, last year and police seized a Samsung phone, plus two SD cards containing more ‘upskirt’ recordings.
“Following his arrest the defendant admitted uploading material to use as a sort of cloud storage for himself.”
Examples include a young woman on the Underground wearing a short black and white skirt, who was filmed from behind on an escalator.
Another was a female sitting opposite the defendant on a tube train, who was wearing a short skirt, who the defendant followed off the train and up stairs filming her buttocks and underwear.
At a clothing shop in Wimbledon he twice filmed women in changing rooms, with one in full view in just her bra and knickers.
“He admitted from the outset he was the person who uploaded the material and went into detail about how he recorded the material,” added Mr. Rattigan.
Nadarajah confessed he was fascinated filming females, knowing they would be in a state of undress and that if they knew they were being recorded they would have felt victimised.
“He admitted he did it over a wide range of time and on a large number of occasions.”
A total of 41 ‘upskirting’ videos were found on USB sticks seized by police when they raided Nadarajah’s family home, plus 27 more on his phone.
Nadarajah’s QC Mr. Ali Bajwa said: “Everyone who knows this man says he is outstanding and he makes no excuses.
“His wife, who is here today, says he was under business stress for nine months to a year.
“Maybe putting them on the web was an extension of the voyeurism. There was obviously some sexual excitement.
“The defendant’s business is extremely successful and the impact on him has been considerable. Contracts have been cancelled or postponed after reporting in the media.
“The shame and loss to his reputation is unrecoverable. The effect on him has been profound.
‘The amount of forgiveness from his wife and family has been sobering and the long-term hope is that he never finds himself before a court again.
“If ever there was a man suitable for another chance it is this man.”
Judge Clarke told Nadarajah: “You have caused enormous damage to your business and brought punishment down on yourself by your actions.
“The aggravating harm has to be that they were viewed by others.
“There had to be a degree of planning when you got a video recording of a women’s changing area, where females were changing their clothes in what they thought was the privacy of a cubicle.
“Uploading onto the World Wide Web was particularly reprehensible.”
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