A man has been jailed after an off-duty police officer noticed him upskirting a woman at the British Museum. Metropolitan Police officers launched an investigation after an off-duty City of London Police officer spotted Jake Verano Gomez filming up a woman’s skirt on 19 August. They discovered several videos on his phone.
Upskirting, defined as the act of covertly filming or taking a picture under a person’s skirt without gaining their consent, was made a criminal offence in England and Wales in April 2019.
The offence now carries a punishment of up to two years in custody under the Voyeurism Act and the most serious cases see wrongdoers placed on the sex offenders’ register.
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