Man arrested after secret filming shared on Tik Tok

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2450d5993vo

by Coolnumber11

25 comments

  1. Good. Exploiting other people and invading their privacy for social media clout is a particular sickness of modern society that needs to be stamped out.

  2. This is as creepy as fuck and his arrest is definitely in the public interest, but I was glad to see a remark in the article about how recording video in public is legal — it’s important that this remains true!

    Luckily, it appears that this creep was also recording video that crossed over the line into illegality.

  3. Are these linked to the “night life” videos on YouTube?

    Where it’s a “night out in Manchester!”

    And it’s a guy silently walking around outside busy clubs following young girls in short dresses

  5. Something can both be objectively creepy and weird, but entirely legal at the same time

    If he is prosecuted, I’m curious as to what the charge is

    Edit: speaking specifically about filming the public in public. Not commenting on upskiriting

  7. >GMP said officers had found other content “locked under paywalled accounts which included footage of suspected non-consensual nudity and upskirting” in the course of the investigation.
    >Ch Insp Stephen Wiggins said: “Filming in public is legal, however where this filming crosses the line into offences such as upskirting, stalking or harassment, it’s important that we don’t allow that behaviour.”

    For those asking the offence. Also within the article there’s a link to the investigation article and it says

    > GMP said although it is not illegal to film people in public, if the action is causing distress or harassment it could be considered criminal.

  8. Comments on these videos are just 90% blokes saying ‘watching from x third world country’. Grim.

  9. This will be the tip of the iceberg. Just wait til they go through his devices…….

  10. Doesn’t the Daily Fail have Freshers Week, Halloween, and St. Patrick days articles, every year, showcasing women like this with out their consent?

  11. I hope they properly throw the book at the creepy cunt and make an example of him.

    The Daily Mail do a similar thing during Freshers Week.

  12. Can it be considered stalking and harrasment if they are all walking past him and don’t even know they’re being recorded.

  13. This showed up on my Facebook a few months ago and it was creepy as fuck, he was going around secretly filming drunk girls and from what i could see seemed to focus on those with short dresses or skirts on

    The comments were a disgusting mix of people calling the girls whores and sluts, and men thirsting over them.

    It also seemed to be going viral worldwide, because a lot of comments were from outside the UK

    Glad somethings being done about it

  14. So this gross loser who clearly videoed these girls as a means to “shame” them for how they dressed on a night out and invoke a misogynistic reaction from people labelling these women as sluts. Turns out was also secretly filming non-consensual nudity and upskirting, who’d have guessed it. What a prick.

  15. Has the Daily Mail reported it yet? With lots of ‘shocking’ pics of young women on a night out, for people to tut at. Like they have features on whenever they have an excuse.

  16. Ray-Ban/Meta glasses are going to make this so much worse. 

  17. I’m sure the people smugglers will find another individual to help advertise their services.

  18. I’ve seen loads of these videos filmed around Manchester. It’s always the women dressed in revealing outfits that tend to get recorded.

  19. This is what he did wrong

    “GMP said officers had found other content “locked under paywalled accounts which included footage of suspected non-consensual nudity and upskirting” in the course of the investigation.”

    The films of the people on nights out is fine.

  20. The only thing I ever took from one of those videos is how dead Manchester city centre is these days.

  21. Good. These sick fucks go about borderline upskirting wee girls on their nights out.

  22. these men need to stop treating these women like sex figures.

    how would men like it if women did the oppisite way around.

    social media is slowly dying so lets hope this becomes less of it in the future.

    and if you downvote my comment YOU GET BANNED.

  23. Don’t the Daily Mail post unapproved photos of young drunk people on nights on?

  24. if i could i would put money on it that this will lead to absolutely nothing and will result in all charges dropped,it is 100% legal to walk down a street in the UK and film, the arrest was made for “suspicion of stalking and harassment” the mere act of walking down a street with a camera and capturing people who you walk past and who walk past you cannot be considered “stalking and harassment” for stalking and harassment you need to have involuntary contact with the victim 2 or more times.

    Source: https://www.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/sh/stalking-harassment/what-is-stalking-harassment/

    > It’s harassment if the unwanted behaviour has happened more than once.

    In regards to the upskirting, i dont think he has been charged for this as it doesn’t mention any arrest for sexual harassment or Voyeurism, the police would have to prove he deliberately manipulated the camera to point directly up the womans skirt, i doubt it anything more than a woman sat on a kerb or a bench and you can partially see up her skirt, otherwise he would have been charged under the Voyeurism act also.

    what we all have to remember here is that the Greater manchester police are under extreme scrutiny rite now because of the way officers have treated woman in custody and the way they have historically ignored woman in regards to making sexual harassments & rape claims, we have just had the Baird Inquiry in manchester, a report that has left GMP’s reputation in the gutter in regards to protecting woman in custody, including illegal arrests, illegal strip searches and refusals from GMP to hand over CCTV and body worn cameras of officers accused of sexual assault of women in custody.

    This seems like nothing more that the police making an arrest for something that they know isn’t a crime just so they can try and convince women that they can actually trust the police, its one step up from a PR exercise, the reality is that GMP are terrible at protecting woman and regularly treat women/girls who come forward to make claims of sexual harassments and rape as a nuisance, the Baird Inquiry proved this.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjk380e5zkvo

  25. I remember I reported the videos at the time on TikTok and they didn’t remove them as they said it broke no rules.

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