Woman secretly filmed in changing room by ‘creep’ photographer blasts his 20 month sentence for voyeurism as police appeal for more than 70 unidentified victims to come forward
- Perverted photographer David Glover, 48, set up hidden cameras for sick snaps
- He admitted five counts of voyeurism concerning 35 adult female victims
A woman who was secretly filmed by a photographer in changing rooms while on a modelling shoot has said ‘we need to find the rest of the girls’ who fell victim to him.
David Glover was jailed for 20 months at Peterborough Crown Court after admitting five counts of voyeurism concerning 35 victims.
Detective Constable Pete Wise, of Cambridgeshire Constabulary, said there are still 72 unidentified women in footage seized from 48-year-old Glover.
Francesca Rowden, who has waived her right to anonymity, said she ‘felt really sick’ when it emerged that Glover had secretly recorded her.
The 32-year-old, of St Ives, Cambridgeshire, attended court on Monday to see Glover sentenced.
Voyeur photographer David Glover, of Tallington, Lincs, made secret recordings of the women
One of the women Francesca Rowden bravely waived her right to anonymity and told the court she no longer worked in the modelling industry
‘To see him, I kind of wanted to be really angry but he just didn’t seem to show any remorse,’ said the mother-of-two.
‘He was just eyes down, even when we were standing up reading our statements and crying he didn’t seem to show any emotion at all.
‘I just think maybe he could have maybe got a bit more. I’ve seen how this has affected a lot of the girls.
‘Only being able to give him 20 months is a bit of a kick of the teeth.
‘We need to find the rest of the girls now. If this can get out and we can find those we’ll come down hard on him again.’
Glover was initially charged with voyeurism in respect of four named women and 103 unidentified adult females.
But after press coverage of court hearings, more women came forward and the fifth count – of 103 unidentified women – was amended to a schedule of 31 named women.
Glover could face further court proceedings if some of the 72 women who have still not been identified come forward.
Detective Constable Pete Wise outside Peterborough Crown Court, Cambridgeshire, after David Glover was jailed for 20 months for five counts of voyeurism after he admitted to five counts of voyeurism concerning 35 adult female victims who have been identified by police
Ms Rowden said she would have liked Glover to receive a longer prison sentence, ‘but I do feel like we have some closure now and we can move on’.
‘This has been going on for four years since it all came to light,’ she said.
She said she had previously trusted Glover to photograph her children, and he had been due to photograph her wedding – an arrangement that she cancelled.
When she learned that Glover had been accused of making the secret recordings she did not think she would feature.
‘I didn’t think I’d be involved, first of all, I was like, ‘He wouldn’t do that to me, that wouldn’t happen’,’ she said.
‘Then when I found out it was me I became very upset but I did decide to pursue it and come to court today.’
She said she has since ‘stepped back’ from the modelling industry, adding: ‘And I wouldn’t probably get back into it ever today.’
At Peterborough Crown Court, prosecutor Thomas Brown described how Glover ‘produced portfolios of aspirant models involved in the fashion industry’ and also worked as a wedding photographer.
‘He was well thought of,’ he said.
The prosecutor said Glover did not own a photographic studio but would shoot in his own home and would sometimes hire studio space.
He hired studio space in a Cambridgeshire village in 2014 to photograph ‘a model who wished to further her career’.
‘There was private space provided by the studio for people to change from their outdoor, everyday clothing into whatever they were wearing for the shoot,’ said the prosecutor.
‘As a private space, it was used for exactly that purpose by people who were to be photographed.’
Mr Brown said that the woman’s partner attended with her ‘to hold the bags, so to speak’ and he ‘noticed in the changing room an alarm clock that looked remarkably out of context’.
He investigated further and found it was a covert camera, and that the memory card in it had footage of his partner getting changed on it.
The woman confronted Glover about this and he claimed that the studio proprietor had been ‘accusing him of taking thing from the changing rooms and the camera was a security measure designed to demonstrate that that wasn’t the case’.
The woman accepted the explanation and apology at the time, and did not make a report to police, but did so later in 2019 after she ‘worried about what happened’ and ‘how far these images had gone’.
She had also heard ‘rumours of the defendant’s behaviour towards clients’, Mr Brown said.
‘It triggered a police investigation,’ she said.
‘The police visited Mr Glover at home. They seized his media devices and they were forensically examined.’
Officers identified three more women from footage that they viewed and he was initially charged with voyeurism in respect of four named women and 103 unidentified adult females.
Mr Brown said the case came to court and as a result of press interest more women came forward – resulting in the charges which Glover admitted.
Det Con Wise appealed for anyone who thinks they may be among the 72 unidentified women in the footage to come forward.
‘You need the justice that you deserve, the same as the victims today have got their justice,’ he said.
‘I’ve got to praise the strength of the victims.’
He added that Glover was refusing to name the unidentified women in the footage.
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