Pervert admits filming woman using the toilet at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park

Voyeur: Tim Bastiaans, 26, admitted recording women as they used a toilet at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park last year
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Laura Proto6 January 2016
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A pervert is facing jail after admitting filming a woman using the toilet at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park for his own sexual gratification.

Dutch national Tim Bastiaans, who was in the UK to work at the popular Christmas attraction, pleaded guilty to one charge of voyeurism and another of attempted voyerisum at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

Bastiaans, who was staying at the Radnor Hotel in Paddington and was due to return to his home country on Thursday, broke down in tears as magistrates warned him he could face a custodial sentence.

The court heard the 26-year-old went into the ladies’ toilets on November 28 last year and placed his mobile phone near a gap on the floor to film women in the adjacent cubicle “for the purposes of sexual gratification”.

He recorded one woman, who did not notice the hidden camera, but a second woman saw the phone and called the police after confronting Bastiaans.

Prosecutor Zahid Hussain said Bastiaans entered the cubicle at 6.10pm and recorded the first woman for about 30 seconds, but a later examination of the footage - which he tried to delete - did not show her using the toilet or in a state of undress.

The second woman, who spotted the phone, initially thought a friend was playing a prank, but after knocking on the door of the adjacent cubicle discovered Bastiaans inside and confronted him.

Bastiaans initially denied filming the women and tried to run off, but the woman and her friends took his Dutch identity card and took photographs of him before he was arrested by police.

Mr Hussain said in his police interview, Bastiaans claimed he used the female toilets because the men's were "messy" and that he had put his phone down on the floor next to his shoe.

Bastiaans also told police that what he had done was "stupid".

Defending, Mehreen Lodhi told the court Bastiaans had admitted the accusations in a second police interview, and only ran off because he felt threatened after one of the women said she was calling her boyfriend.

Bastiaans was granted conditional bail and will be sentenced at the same court on January 27.

Additional reporting by Press Association.

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