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Camera ban for foot fetish pervert
9:26am Saturday 3rd February 2007
Comments (9)A PERVERT with a fetish for taking photos of girls' feet has been banned from carrying a camera.
Martin Spiers shocked 14-year-old girls in Cassiobury Park, Watford, last October when he approached them and asked to take pictures of their feet.
St Albans Crown Court heard on Friday they ran away and found a patrolling police officer to help them.
Charles Ingram, prosecuting, said the police officer found Spiers in the park. He had hidden a digital camera in a bush near where he was standing which was found to have photos of feet on it.
He told the officer: "Sorry, I'm out of my head and trying to sort it out."
Spiers, 38, of Courtlands Drive, Watford, pleaded guilty to being a public nuisance and being in breach of a community order and sexual offenders order.
Mr Ingram said Spiers, also known as Rodrigues, has "a fetish for people's feet, in particular young females".
The community order and sexual offenders order where given after a similar incident in Watford High Street in June 2005.
Daire Brehan, defending, said Spiers' photo-taking was triggered by alcohol and he was seeking to address both problems. She said he is a minimal risk to the public.
Having spent 102 days in custody awaiting sentencing, John Plumstead released Spiers but said to him: "What you do causes little physical harm but it frightens the wits out of people - both the women you approach and the parents who worry about a perverse interest being taken in their children.
"Your fetish is not acceptable when it involves underage people."
Judge Plumstead ordered Spiers to comply with his original sexual offenders order which he said would now last for three years.
He also banned him from taking a camera or camera phone out with him or taking pictures in public for the next six months.
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Concerned American, United States says...
7:10am Sat 17 Feb 07
Foot lover, south essex says...
9:20am Sat 17 Feb 07
Steve Robinson wrote:i agree also there is not a darn thing wrong with it. cause obviously he wasnt interested in anything else but their feet......i love feet also..BUT! there is a right way to go about it......but i dont see what he the least bit illegal......taking pictures of feet? yeah they were 14 so what??? he didnt harm them in anyway!
I find nothing wrong with what this fine young mab did. I love womens feet too, and I would and will do the very same thing he did. Having a foot fetish is NO CRIME, nor taking pics of them pretty girls feet a crime. Foot freaks Unite!!
Concerned American, America says...
2:41am Sun 18 Feb 07
People with foot fetishes derive sexual pleasure from feet, the same as other people would derive sexual pleasure from breasts, or nudity, or anything like that. Pleasuring yourself to a picture of a 14 year old girl's feet - to a person with a foot fetish - is the equivalent of someone without a foot fetish pleasuring themselves to a nude picture of an underage girl. A 14 year old is a child. How would you feel if you walked in on your friend pleasuring himself to your 14 year old sister's feet?
No, wait. I've seen this one: You're right, I'm wrong. Right?
You're gross, man. Really.
Katy, London says...
10:15am Mon 19 Feb 07
Does the sight of bare feet with beautifully painted toe nails send your libido rocketing? Or do you want to run away and physically vomit?
Perhaps youre tired of suffering in silence and being labelled as a freak or a weirdo.
As Producers of a television documentary on the subject, we would like to hear from people with foot fetishes and foot phobias. We want to document your road to a cure in this, sensitive and informative documentary; which will include professional psychologists and psychiatrists.
To tell your story please telephone Katy Kendrick on: 0207 438 1857 or e-mail: katy.kendrick@twofour.co.uk .
Good luck!!
ben, uk says...
1:42pm Mon 19 Mar 07
I have a foot fetish and this is very true, what this man did was wrong, its wrong to take a persons picture without them knowing. My fetish is strictly left to the bedroom as with anything sexual. foot fetishists are just normal people not like the loser who did this, he was just a pervert who happened to have one
Nubianplains, UK says...
8:15pm Sun 17 Jun 07
they're seen as ok as edgy is cool). I've loved female feet since childhood and as I approach middle age, the pull remains as strong as ever. Accept it - DON'T KNOCK IT!
mzadi, Culver City,CA USA says...
12:44pm Thu 28 Jun 07
Having had a foot fetish since I was in kindergarten, I thought myself "sick and abnormal" growing up, but I have since gotten a clue! It's who I am and there is nothing sick, perverted or abnormal about it. It's who I am and my preference. So those of you who think we need "curing" , perhaps YOU need some therapy yourselves dealing with why you can't accept ANOTHER PERSON'S tastes and preferences.
Martin Rodrigues, Watford, UK says...
10:48pm Sun 11 Nov 07
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Steve Robinson, Maine, USA says...
9:56pm Thu 15 Feb 07