Andrew Smith, who recorded individuals using the lavatory at Creamfields, was apprehended after a woman noticed his phone protruding over a pub cubicle door.
The 39-year-old paedophile, Andrew Smith, from Pickerings Close, Runcorn, recorded adolescent girls changing at a theatre and captured footage beneath schoolgirls’ skirts.
The woman observed his hand holding a phone above her in a pub, prompting her to exit and forcibly kick open the door of the cubicle he occupied to confront him, after which Smith escaped but was apprehended by doormen.
Authorities discovered a disturbing array of clandestinely recorded videos of adults and minors on Smith’s electronic devices.
Andrew Smith confessed to one charge of voyeurism concerning his adult victims, as well as one charge each of possessing and producing Category C indecent photographs of children; the latter two charges pertain to the same eight secretly recorded movies of girls backstage at The Brindley Theatre and upskirt videos of girls.
Andrew Smith was incarcerated for a duration of two years.
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