A man banned from entering all McDonald's toilets in the UK after taking upskirt photos of women, was in court after being caught going into a female loo at the fast food joint again.
Asere Shumba, from Derby, received the ban after taking taking seedy pictures of women in the toilets of a McDonald's in Richmond, London plus a Walkabout bar in Derby.
As part of the ban, photos of the 27-year-old were distributed to McDonald's staff so they could identify him if he tried to use the toilets, reports Derbyshire Live.
On Wednesday evening of this week, December 28, he was spotted and recognised by an eagle-eyed worker at the St Peter's Street branch in Derby.
Prosecutor Becky Allsop said: "In a statement they said 'I recognised him and he followed me upstairs and made some conversation with me. I thought he was going to sit down and order some food but instead I watched as he walked into the female toilets.'"
Miss Allsop said the police went to Shumba's home address in Shakespeare Street, Sinfin, where they arrested him and seized devices which they are currently analysing. The defendant pleaded guilty to breaching the terms of a sexual harm prevention order.
That was imposed in January 2021 at Derby Crown Court when he was handed a two-year community order after he admitted to two counts of voyeurism. The first happened in a branch of McDonald's in Richmond, Surrey, while the second happened on New Year's Eve 2019 in the old Walkabout bar, now called the Hideout.
At that hearing, Recorder William Harbage KC was told how Shumba locked himself in cubicles and then filmed the victims as they went to use the facilities. On the first occasion he was spotted and ran out of the fast food outlet, chased by the woman who told how she felt “violated” by what happened to her.
And the second time, in Derby, he was identified and arrested by police before slipping his handcuffs and running off. Chasing officers caught him and seized his mobile phone on which almost 400 upskirt-style photographs were discovered.
Handing Shumba a two-year community order on that occasion, the judge said: “The offence of voyeurism is serious as it invades people’s privacy and dignity. You recognised at the time it was morally wrong, but it is also illegal.
"You seem to have done this on a number of occasions, but I am only sentencing you for two. You clearly have a problem, but what drove you to do it is not entirely clear except you admitted yourself that you got sexual gratification from it.”
James Close, defending Shumba this week in Derby, said his client was doing well on the community order he was handed almost two years ago, and had completed all of the unpaid work and the sex offender treatment programme he was ordered to attend.
He said: "I don't think there is evidence either way if he did or did not have any recording devices on him in McDonald's (this week). You could impose a suspended sentence as a warning not to do it again?"
Magistrates remanded Shumba into custody over the New Year and committed the sentence to Derby Crown Court, where he is scheduled to appear to be sentenced on January 19, 2023.
