I have to start by saying I have name changed. This story is not me but one of my colleagues. I have told it in her perspective as neither of us know what to do.
At the weekend I was out with a load of colleagues. An ex colleague was there. Previously some women I work with have complained that he is a bit creepy and said that when they’ve talked to him he has tried to film down their tops etc.
There was a toilet in the club we were in that was only being used by us (had an area roped off). I went to use the loo and noticed someone had left their phone on top of the sanitary bin. I thought this was pretty weird as it’s quite an unhygienic place to leave your phone. When I picked it up I noticed it had a metal device attached to the bottom of it. I pressed the screen to find out who it belonged to but the screen wouldn’t light up, as if it was turned off. I started to feel really weird, like something was up.
I went back out to the bar and over to my friends who were coincidentally talking to the creepy guy. I said that I had found the phone in the toilet and that it was really weird to be positioned on the sanitary bin.
Immediate the guy got very panicked and acted odd. He grabbed the phone saying it was his and then went home. Didn’t see him again all night.
My colleague has told a few people this story and we don’t know what to do. She’s been advised to tell HR and that they will inform the police if needs be but this is obviously an ex colleague and it happened out of work.
What should she do?