Alleged snapper arrested at pool
10:48am Tuesday 21st March 2006 in
JUST weeks after a scheme was set up at Bexley's leisure centres to keep children safe, a man has been arrested and accused of taking secret pictures.
The man was arrested at the Crook Log centre, Brampton Road, Bexleyheath, for allegedly using his mobile phone to take photographs of a mother and child changing in a cubicle.
A man, who was at the centre with his 20-month-old daughter, explained how he was waiting for a changing area to become vacant when a woman started banging on a cubicle door shouting at the person to come out.
He said: "The door opened and a black man came out.
"He was quite smartly dressed. He didn't have a towel or anything, but he had a mobile phone in his hand.
"He started to run through everyone, and the woman was shouting Stop him. He has been taking photographs.' "Another man who I think he was an off-duty policeman, grabbed him around the neck and someone called the police. When he was stopped, he just put his hands up and said Yes, OK'.
"I thought he had been using his phone to take photographs from underneath the cubicle partition, but the pool staff told me someone had made a hole in the cubicle wall over a period of time.
"Later, my mother showed me a clipping from News Shopper about this new scheme Leisure Watch. It has dented my confidence."
Bexley police have confirmed a 22-year-old man was arrested at Crook Log leisure centre on March 4 on suspicion of voyeurism and released on police bail, pending further inquries.
A spokesman for Parkwood Leisure, which runs Crook Log, said: "It is disappointing an incident of this nature has occurred at one of the borough's leisure centres.
"However, the fact the suspect was caught promptly and arrested is encouraging."
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