Voyeur given caution instead of being prosecuted

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Article in The Metro:

https://metro.co.uk/2025/02/10/a-man-stared-a-vent-changed-given-a-caution-22527905/

Woman in gym changing room noticed someone watching through a high-level air vent. The voyeur was a man standing on a chair in the neighbouring disabled changing room.

Man located and arrested by police. Man confesses and shows remorse. Police decide to give him a caution instead of prosecuting, which they can do in exceptional circumstances. No explanation from the police as to the exceptional circumstances.

Woman not happy with the decision so she has gone public.

Looks like the leisure centre has taken more of a stand than the police.

It's well known that sexual predators escalate. They start of as voyeurs and flashers then escalate to sexual assault.

He went to a lot of trouble though. He could have said he was a woman and got full access.

Hate this. Men who do this should be punished in the strongest way. When some boys spied on us at school they got MAXIMUM detentions and "parental discussion" and were made examples of. Never happened again!

Given that such crimes are often precursors to more serious ones, it’s astonishing that the police aren’t taking such a thing more seriously.

This happens all the time and is a joke amongst the staff at some leisure centres. When it happened to me and DD3 at the receptionist - male - smiled sympathetically and said "oh yeah, he's done it before, I'll stop him coming back in" but I had to call the police myself and they refused to do anything. Women's bodies are public property.