Man Who Secretly Filmed Young Woman In Bathroom Denies It Was For Sexual Kicks

A voyeur spied on a 21 year-old woman after setting-up a secret camera in the bathroom of a suburban house, recording her using the shower and toilet, a court heard today.

Andrew Fulker, 43, of Woodlands Road, Isleworth denies doing it for sexual kicks, despite storing a vast amount of images of the young woman on his computer.

He has pleaded not guilty to ten counts of voyeurism for sexual gratification between January 1, 2013 and September 16, 2014 at an address in Mill Farm Crescent, Hounslow.

Prosecutor Miss Georgina Coade told Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court the woman was getting ready for work on September 16, 2014 when she discovered the recording equipment.

“As she sat down on the toilet she heard a noise behind her that sounded like a camera focusing and saw a USB-type device on the window ledge behind her.

“Further footage had also been taken from an i-phone positioned on the floor near the bathroom cabinet.

“She plugged the USB device into the home computer and found varying video clips that showed intimate footage of her using the bathroom.

“In some of the footage she is naked, getting in and out of the shower and was horrified at what she had found.”  

Fulker was confronted and thee were discussions with his Jehovah Witness elders and he admitted setting-up the camera.

“He said he admired her body and curves,” added Miss Coade. “He said when he recorded her in her underwear it sparked his interest.”

The police were informed and found further moving images on his computer, with some transferred from the i-phone.

Trial continues..............

Hotel Midnight K.O: CCTV Released

Police are hunting a violent midnight thug, after a man was punched unconscious at an east London hotel.

Detectives investigating the attack have issued CCTV footage of a man they wish to identify and speak with.

In the early hours of Saturday, September 19, last year police were called to a report of an assault at the Custom House Hotel on Victoria Dock Road, Newham.

Upon arrival, the London Ambulance Service were treating a 37-year-old man for a cut mouth and bruised eye having been knocked out by the suspect.

He was taken to an east London hospital and later discharged.

CCTV from the hotel captured the assault just before midnight on Friday, September 18.

The suspect is seen to argue with the victim, take the victim’s neck in his left arm before hitting him in the face.

He then let go of his neck, causing him to fall onto the hotel counter and then onto the floor.

The suspect is described as a white man wearing black shorts, black ankle boots, white/grey trainers, a baseball cap and a black top with a logo on the rear stating “No91 Criminal Damage London”.

Police are keen to hear from anyone who recognises the man caught on CCTV.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact police on 020 8217 5039 quoting reference number 198721 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Bus Fare-Dodger Wanted For Attack On Ticket Inspector

Police are hunting a fare-dodger, who punched and kicked a ticket inspector on a north London bus.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Roads and Transport Policing Command have released these CCTV images of their suspect.

The Transport for London Revenue Protection Inspector was checking fares on a route 73 bus traveling along Essex Road, Islington at 5.50pm on September 17, last year.

The 29 year-old inspector was punched and kicked after asking to check the suspect's ticket.

The victim received minor injuries, which did not require hospital treatment and the assault may have been more severe had his colleague not intervened.

The suspect is described as a light skinned black man, aged about 17 to 25 years of age.

He was wearing a grey cap, with long afro hair tied in a ponytail.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Police Constable Neil Webb leading the investigation on 0203 0546712 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 quoting ref 192860.

Rare Books Obtained In Transatlantic Credit Card Fraud

A crook sold rare editions of novels by Ian Fleming, Rudyard Kipling and Stephen King to specialist booksellers after they were obtained during an international credit card fraud.

A first edition of 'For Your Eyes Only', a rare two-volume set of the 'Jungle Book' and an autographed 'Carrie' from 1974 were all sold to high-end retailers.

London Underground maintenance worker Manhattan Jayde Christian Essien, 27, of Tudor Road, Harrow sold them for £2550.

He also twice tried to sell a copy of Crutchley's map of London - once for £400 - to neighbouring bookshop's, but was forced to abandon the attempts.

The father-of-three pleaded guilty to three counts of converting criminal property and two counts of attempting to convert criminal property between December 19, 2013 and January 20, 2014.

Prosecutor Mr. James O'Connell told Isleworth Crown Court yesterday: "There had been a long-standing police investigation into fraudulent activity involving credit cards and high-quality, high-value books.

"Some of these unique books, which were ordered from America, were delivered to a mailing address in Woburn Place, Holborn.

"The victims had sent them before realising the credit cards used to order the books had been cloned.

"They were high-value books of some antiquity."

Essien was identified via CCTV selling James Bond-creator Ian Fleming's first edition for £400 in Berkeley Square, Mayfair and the two-volume 'Jungle Book' for £650 in Charing Cross Road.

He received £1500 for the autographed novel by U.S. horror writer Stephen King and left the Crutchley's map book behind when he failed to sell it.

Essien told a similar story to retailers that his uncle had tracked-down the books when travelling around the USA.

All three of the books he sold were recovered by the police.

The day before the first offence he had been sentenced for fraud after buying a saxophone online with a bogus credit card then selling the instrument on Gumtree.

He claimed to have sold the books for an accomplice in return for a cut of the proceeds.

Essien was sentenced to four months imprisonment, suspended for twelve months, ordered to complete 80 hours community service and pay £2550 compensation to the retailers.

Spanking Pastor: "I Believe A Smack At The Right Time And Place Can Be Beneficial."

A evangelical pastor who denies sexually assaulting female worshippers who say their bare bottoms were spanked told a jury today he was not cruel to young children he also disciplined.

The spankings dished-out to the women were to satisfy 73 year-old self-styled Reverend Howard Curtis's "desire for power and sexual satisfaction," Croydon Crown Court heard.

The father-of-three, of Bloxworth Close, Wallington ran the Coulsdon Christian Fellowship (CCF) as a cult, said prosecutor Mr. Toby Fitzgerald. 

He denies cruelty in relation to one nine year-old girl and told the jury: "She pulled her knickers down and I put her over my knee.

"It was six of the best, not that hard and she did not cry. She was a very precocious child."

Curtis admits he did not approve of her wearing short mini-skirts and that she needed some Christian discipline, but insists the slaps were with her consent.

"She came to me and said she was bruised and I told her that I did not mean that to happen.

"She said she was black and blue. She exaggerated things so much."

Talking in general about the disciplining of children Curtis told the jury: "I believe a smack at the right time and place can be beneficial."

The court heard he ordered one woman to strip naked before putting her over his knee to slap, continuing the beating when she collapsed to the floor - with one of the dozen or so sessions in front of her husband.

Curtis has pleaded not guilty to two sample counts of sexually assaulting her between January 1, 2009 and July 15, 2013 and one count of assault by digital penetration.

He introduced the student nurse to his version of "Christian domestic discipline" - following Bible teachings  of keeping women in their place.

"She trusted him completely as a man of God," said Mr. Fitzgerald, explaining the first disciplining - for untidiness - occurred in the defendant's office at the church.

"She pulled down her trousers and underwear and lay across his lap. He hit her hard about twelve times until she ended up on the floor.

"She'd become, in effect, a rag doll in the defendant's hands."

Subsequent discipline sessions were for "lacking femininity" and having a "frigid spirit," the jury were told.

"The defendant told her to strip completely naked and she lay across his lap and he slapped her. 

"He also smacked her not  only on her bottom, but between her legs for not recognising her femininity."

Curtis also took naked pictures of her on his mobile phone and fondled her between her legs, once inserting a finger, the jury were told.

When arrested he did not deny the spankings, insisting they were consensual.

Another woman was told it was "God's will" she be punished and she agreed to his form of discipline, which took place in another follower's house, next-door to the Chipstead Valley Road church.

"She leaned over a bannister in the hallway and took her trousers and knickers down so he could spank her bare bottom.

"She was told it was important not to tell him when to stop, he would decide when it was time to stop and he continued to beat her forcefully.

"There were twenty to thirty strikes with his bare hand and she felt it was going on forever and was crying. She was black and blue and told all these actions were in God's name."

Curtis has pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault against the woman between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2009.

He also denies one count of child cruelty between March 1, 2007 and February 28, 2008 in relation to the woman's nine year-old daughter.

She was put over his knee and beaten "very hard" until she started crying, explained Mr. Fitzgerald.

A third woman, a 51 year-old mum-of-three, received so-called "healing sessions" from Curtis, who claimed her could help her come to terms with historic sexual abuse.

"She feels she was almost put into a hypnotic trance by the defendant, who quite deliberately preyed on the fact she had been abused to get her to relive it while he performed the acts her abuser did.

"Her reactions was often to scream and try to fight him off, but the defendant said this told him she needed more healing, allowing him to commit more abuse.

"The sessions were so physical and violent her clothes would be ripped and the defendant was so hot and sweaty he'd remove the top half of his clothing."

She was even attacked by Curtis with the help of other worshippers in the family room of a hospital her daughter was being treated at for a life-threatening illness.

"The defendant pinned her down to the bed and got on top of her while holding the Bible.

"Others had gone up there, supposedly to pray, and they assisted in pinning her down.

"The angrier she got the more the defendant said it was the evil spirit coming out."

Curtis denies two counts of indecently assaulting her between August 1, 1991 and April 1, 1996.

He also denies two counts of child cruelty between January 29, 2004 and January 28, 2006 in relation to a young boy, aged approximately eight years-old he spanked "very hard" up to five times.

Curtis has also pleaded not guilty to causing actual bodily harm to a thirteen year-old girl he spanked a dozen times with a slipper for disobedience until she was "black and blue" some time between January 4, 1969 and January 3, 1971.

He denies another child cruelty charge relating to a worshipper's baby, whose bottom he is accused of pinching, some time between January 1, 1986 and January 3, 1989.

Curtis was ordained in 1988 under the umbrella of the Elim Pentecostal church.

"He presented himself as an inspirational man of God," said Mr. Fitzgerald. "The Crown say the church was run for this defendant and he cloaked himself in the trappings of a religious leader.

"In reality he was nothing of the sort. He deceived his congregation, including children.

"He said he was going to cast out evil spirits from people and that discipline had to be administered by striking bare flesh with the bare hand."

Trial continues…………. 

Pensioner Targeted By Bogus Council Trickster

A cruel and heartless conman snatched an 85 year-old pensioner's purse after claiming he was from the council and needed to check her home's windows.

At 9.30am on Friday, 27November, last year police were called to reports of a distraction burglary at a residential address on Dagenham Avenue, Dagenham.



A man knocked on the door and told the woman that he was checking windows on behalf of the council.



The woman let him in and was asked to move her wheelchair into her bedroom so that he could check her windows for faults.



Curious to know what he was doing, she went to her hallway to find him going through her side cabinet.

When she asked him to leave he grabbed her purse containing £35 and ran out of the house.



CCTV in Dagenham Avenue captured a man matching the description of the suspect.


Police are keen to hear from anyone who recognises the suspect.

He is described as a white man, aged in his mid-twenties, wearing a grey hooded top, blue jeans and black trainers with white stripes.



Anyone with any information is asked to contact police on 101 quoting image 197407 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Bus Stop Hand Shandy: CCTV Released

Police hunting a bus passenger who played with himself as he waited for the service have released this CCTV image of their suspect.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Roads and Transport Policing Command are appealing for help in identifying the man who was seen masturbating at a bus stop in Bromley.

The incident occurred on Saturday August 15, last year at about 9.00pm at a bus stop on South Road, at the junction with Boundary Street, Erith.

The suspect is described as a white man, approx 40 years old, who was wearing grey shorts, black trainers and a blue hooded top at the time.

Police officers are releasing these CCTV images of the suspect and ask anyone with information to contact Police Constable Natalie Baynes on 07826 536166 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 quoting reference 187820.

Gilet-Wearing Perv Suspect Wanted By Police

Detectives investigating the sexual assault of a woman in Barnet have released CCTV of a man they wish to speak to.

At approximately 10.00pm on Saturday, October 3, last year a man approached the victim from behind as she walked home along Hamilton Road, Brent Cross.

As the man grabbed her, she screamed alerting passers by.

The suspect then hastily walked off down the road.

The suspect is described as a white man of stocky build, aged in his mid-twenties with a lightly tanned complexion.

He is 5ft 8inches tall with short brown hair and large eyes.

He was seen wearing a baseball cap, a gilet, jeans and trainers.

CCTV from a nearby store captures the man following the victim as she walked home with shopping bags.

Police are keen to hear from anyone who recognises the man captured in the CCTV footage.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101 quoting image reference 197440 or anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Late-Night Bus Yob Wanted

Police are hunting an aggressive man who forced his way onto a late-night bus stopped at traffic lights in south-east London and tried to get at the driver.

Officers investigating the public order incident in Bromley have issued CCTV footage and this image in the hope of identifying a man they are keen to speak with.

In the early hours of Sunday, October 11, last year the suspect forced his way onto a Route 160 bus stopped at traffic lights at the junction of Centre Common Road and Bromley Lane in Chislehurst.

He then verbally abused and threatened the 46-year-old male driver.

During the incident the suspect tried to climb into the driver's cab and force open the cab door.

The suspect then forced open the bus doors and ran off.

The suspect is described as a white man, aged between 28 and 35 years-old.

He was wearing dark coloured jeans, a light jumper and a navy blue jacket.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Police Constable Martin O'Donnell, who is leading the investigation on 07826 536152, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 quoting reference 194931.

Woman's Bum Groped By Bus Flasher: CCTV Released

A sex pest groped a woman's bum and exposed himself as she departed a bus in north London.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Roads and Transport Policing Command have released these CCTV images of their main suspect.



On Sunday, November 8, last year at about 8.25pm, the suspect groped the 31-year-old woman as she got off a route 143 bus on Briarfield Avenue, Finchley. 



The suspect is described as a white man aged about 23-years-old.

He wore a beanie style hat, checked shirt and dark coloured trousers. 



Officers are releasing CCTV images of the man taken from the bus.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Police Constable Martin O'Donnell on 07826 536146 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 07826 563152, quoting reference 194717.