Husband covertly filmed his teacher wife in their bedroom for THREE YEARS because he wrongly believed she was having an affair
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Husband covertly filmed his teacher wife in their bedroom for THREE YEARS because he wrongly believed she was having an affair.
A husband who covertly filmed his wife in their bedroom for three years because he wrongly believed she was having an affair has been spared prison.
Paul Lewis, 46, from Aberdulais, near Neath, South Wales, rigged up a secret video camera because he thought his teacher wife Ann, 45, was cheating on him.
Footage from the camera showed that she was not having an affair, but Lewis carried on covertly filming her for the next three years as he knew it would ‘annoy’ her.
The engineer was caught out when Ann found the digital camera after he moved it to the kitchen, and she discovered it contained nearly 30 videos of herself that had been shot in the bedroom.
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Lewis was given a 14-week suspended prison sentence, after he admitted harassment at Swansea Crown Court.
He was also handed a five-year restraining order and must do 120 hours of unpaid work.
The court heard that the marriage had been ‘effectively over’ for some time when Ann found the digital camera.
Some clips on the camera showed Lewis accidentally filming himself installing the spy camera in a bedside cabinet.
Ann also found 29 videos of herself that had been shot in the bedroom, lasting between a few seconds and up to 40 minutes.
When the victim confronted Lewis in January, he said he was glad she had found the camera, adding she had been ‘p****** me off long enough’.
Lewis told police he installed the camera because he thought Ann was having an affair and he wanted to catch her.
However, he said continued filming because he knew it would annoy his wife.
The court heard there was ‘no sexual motive’ for his covert camera behaviour on his wife.
James Hartson, defending Lewis, said his client lost his good character ‘in the most shameful of ways’.
Mr Hartson gave five personal references which showed Lewis to be a ‘kind-hearted, hard-working and well-liked man’.
Judge Keith Thomas told Lewis that he had ‘committed a thoroughly unpleasant offence’.
The couple have since separated, with Lewis moving back to live with his elderly mother.
After the case, his mother Margaret said: ‘He’s not a bad boy but he’s just done one stupid thing. This should have all been sorted out without going to the police.’
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