Asda delivery driver secretly filmed down female customers’ tops and up their skirts
Creepy Richard Phillips, 36, struck as he dropped off groceries at their homes
A PERVERT Asda delivery driver who secretly filmed down female customer's tops and up their skirts while delivering groceries to their homes has been spared jail.
Creepy Richard Phillips, 36, was caught when a suspicious customer set up her own secret camera and caught him in the act when he delivered her weekly shop.
He admitted four charges of voyeurism, one of outraging public decency and one of possessing indecent images of children at Warwick Crown Court today.
He was given a three-year community sentence and ordered to take part in a three-year sex offenders' programme and to register as a sex offender for five years.
Recorder Peter Cooke said: "It's pretty sad to see an individual like you in court. I am sure you are thoroughly ashamed of what you've done.
"Your sexual predilection manifested itself by you abusing your position as a delivery driver and photographing women in an inappropriate way.
"But you are not, in my judgement, a person who must immediately go to custody. The programme proposed should work to stop any further descent into the abyss."
The court heard Phillips, of Bedworth, Warks., secretly filmed women customers as they bent down to pick up their groceries which he delivered to their homes around Coventry.
When he was caught, police also discovered he had taken sneaky pictures up women's skirts after attending a car boot sale in Nuneaton, Warks.
Police were contacted in June last year by a Coventry woman who reported that her Asda delivery driver had been using a small camera to film her.
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She explained that when the driver had been delivering her groceries the previous week, she had noticed that as well as his PDA (personal digital assistant) pad, he also had "a camera gadget" in his hand.
Suspecting what he was doing, she set up a camera herself in her home when her next Asda order was due to be delivered.
Her camera captured the driver filming her as she bent down to pick up her groceries - and she passed that evidence to the police.
Officers contacted Asda who confirmed the driver who had made that delivery was Phillips, who was then arrested.
Prosecutor Ian Windridge said: "He was initially interviewed, and fully admitted that he had filmed down female customers' tops with the hand-held device when they bent forward to pick up the grocery items from the delivery basket."
Phillips was bailed, and the police then examined computer equipment they had seized from his home.
Mr Windridge told the court: "Full examination of the equipment shows a total of 71 files of images of doorstep deliveries; and some images show the delivery paperwork, allowing identification of addresses.
"The images concentrate upon breasts and legs. This was all done covertly, and without the consent of the deliver customers."
There were further images filmed at a car boot sale showing views up women's skirts.
Mr Windridge said the police also found five video images of under-16s, mainly showing them exposing their breasts, as well as "up-skirt footage" downloaded from the internet.
Anthony Potter, defending, said Phillips had no previous convictions.