Camera clock voyeur admits more offences in Peterborough
64 further victims came forward to police
A professional photographer who took secret photos and videos of women using a camera disguised as an alarm clock has been sentenced for more crimes after 64 further victims came forward.
51 year old David Glover was working as a photographer at various studios in Peterborough and around the south of England between March 2011 and March 2017.
Investigations revealed that during this time he had used the covert camera to secretly film 103 women in his own home, or the changing rooms of three different studios.
There were 970 videos which Glover stored on a removable hard drive.
His crimes were first brought to light after a client’s partner noticed something strange about the clock in a changing room in 2014.
Glover was arrested but claimed he was interested in covert filming and didn’t realise it was illegal.
In 2023 he pleaded guilty to five counts of voyeurism – relating to 31 different victims - and was handed one year and eight months in prison. But Glover did not admit the sixth count at court, relating to the voyeurism against the 72 unidentified victims found on videos seized from his home.
A court report on Glover’s crimes was sent out by Cambridgeshire Police which highlighted that there were unidentified victims of voyeurism and encouraged them to come forward.
Within a few hours more victims had come forward and in the next couple of weeks, the officer on the case was contacted by more than 60 women.
Comparing the images provided by the women who came forward against the videos that had been seized from Glover, the officer eliminated most of these women as victims but identified six women who were.
The six new victims included a pregnant woman who had had a maternity photoshoot in 2016, two others filmed in Essex the same year, another woman filmed between 2012 and 2015, and two other women filmed in 2015 and 2017 in Peterborough.
All the women were filmed while they had got changed but were completely unaware of the hidden camera.
Investigations also revealed Glover had sexually assaulted a woman in September 2011 at her home in Lincolnshire after being contacted to carry out some photography work.
The 51 year old pleaded guilty to the new charges - six counts of voyeurism and one count of sexual assault – in February.
Glover, of Manor House Court, Deeping St James, Peterborough, was sentenced at Cambridge Crown Court on Friday (11 April) where he was handed one year and three months in prison, suspended for two years.
He was also ordered to complete a building choices programme, a 20-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement and placed on the sex offenders register for a decade.
Glover was given a strict Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) for 10 years to monitor future offending.
Detective Constable Pete Wise, who investigated, said: “I would like to praise all Glover’s victims - the original victims and the new ones - for their courage in coming forward.
“The lengths Glover went to in order to covertly film women without their consent is sickening.
“I can only imagine how horrified and violated his victims must have felt about being filmed in this way, and how shocking it must have been to see Glover’s 2023 conviction in the news and fearing they might also have been a victim.
“I am glad that after five years of investigating Glover and gathering all the evidence, including watching more than 900 covert videos and cross referencing these with women who came forward, Glover has faced further justice for what he did.
“Glover has now been released from his 2023 prison sentence and I hope this new conviction gives him time to reflect on his behaviour.
“He will be monitored closely and sent back to prison if he reoffends, and we are pleased our suggested SHPO has been granted which effectively stops him from working as a photographer.
“I am glad we have secured a result for even more of his victims and I hope this shows how seriously we take offences of this nature.”