

He said: ‘He inserted his camera phone in the washing ablutions section of the shore base at Devonport’s number ten dock when his ship HMS Ocean was tied up alongside. ‘The outrage and distress which your victims felt is both obvious and understandable.’ Mr Andrew Maitland, prosecuting, said police found the voyeur images on Opie’s computer when they investigated a child pornography case allegations. In each case you filmed their private parts and transferred the files to your laptop so you could enjoy looking at them.

‘They were identified from the films and are now aware of what you did.
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‘You then made six more movie files using a void space you discovered which gave you the opportunity to film secretly as female colleagues dressed and undressed in the changing room. Judge Francis Gilbert, QC, told him: ‘You placed a mobile phone in a toilet block so you could secretly film a female Royal Navy colleague changing her uniform. Opie was a Petty Officer aboard the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean but will now be kicked out of the Navy after an 18-year career after being jailed for two years yesterday. He used his knowledge of the building and his engineering skills to find a void inside a wall of the ablutions block where he filmed the rest of the clips over six months, Plymouth Crown Court was told. The engineering mechanic was caught after filming his own face by accident as he aimed his camera downwards through a hole in the ceiling at a naked woman sailor. Paul Opie, aged 36, used his mobile phone to shoot short video clips of the female crew as they used a shower block on the quayside at the HMS Drake naval base in Plymouth. He admitted seven offences of voyeurism at the Naval base and eight unrelated offences of making or possessing child abuse images. January 2009 Jail for Royal Navy officer – Secretly filmed female shipmates showering and changing and had indecent images of childrenĪ Royal Navy petty officer cut holes in the ceiling and walls of changing rooms so he could film Wren shipmates naked.
