A London policeman accused of having filmed dozens of naked women without their knowledge was sentenced on Friday January 21 to three years in prison for voyeurism, a new case splashing the prestigious police of the British capital.
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Detective Inspector Neil Corbel, 40, was accused by 19 women of acts of voyeurism that occurred between January 2017 and February 2020, for which he had pleaded guilty in mid-September before Westminster Magistrates’ Court. This married man and father pretended to be a photographer with women who came to pose naked in hotels or apartments rented on the internet in the regions of London, Manchester (north of England) and Brighton (south of England) .
Images of 51 different women
He had previously hidden cameras in everyday objects – boxes of tissues, glasses, chargers – in order to film them without their knowledge. Former member of an anti-terrorist squad, Neil Corbel had been arrested after a model suspected an alarm clock, which had found by searching the brand on the internet that it was a device equipped with a device. recording that could be controlled from a telephone.
During his arrest, the agents had found on the policeman’s hard drive images of 51 different women. Rendering his decision, Judge Martin Edmunds found that Neil Corbel had not “exploited (his) role as a policeman to locate or intimidate (his) victims, on the contrary, he rather hid them“. However, when they learned that he was a member of law enforcement, “it is clear that this seriously undermined their confidence in the police“, what the judge considered “particularly serious“. The “Met Policehas been splashed in recent months by a series of cases involving its agents.
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One of them, Wayne Couzens, was sentenced in September to life imprisonment for using his police card to arrest Sarah Everard, who was walking home, before raping her and the stranger then putting the fire to his body. Two agents were sentenced to prison in December for taking and sharing photos of two murdered sisters on WhatsApp.