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Download of a 35-Minute Man
Published: 05 January 2012
‘Apple, Google, Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, and the rest must be delighted’, The Governance Partnership’s Peter Hill wrote in this slot of Londoners’ insatiable craving for e-communication. Well, these manufacturers are also delighted to know it isn’t just the British capital.
Step forward a former Panasonic production engineer from South Wales, who told Cardiff Crown Court that he had used his cellphone to covertly film himself making love to a lady who, on discovering the downloaded film, called the police (possibly on her cellphone). The now ex-boyfriend soon found himself defending a voyeurism
charge. The Judge ordered a showing of the 35-minute download in court, saying ‘It is my wish to clear the court – but I cannot force anyone to leave’.
The defendant claimed that he filmed the encounter not for kicks but as a time-and-motion study; the sex in the relationship had become a bore, and he was doing all the work. The film was for ‘academic research’ into the cellphone-owner’s sexual skills. Academic research, eh? Now that that would make one lively PowerPoint lecture.
Ross Davies is a Partner of The Governance Partnership