A paedophile jailed for secretly filming young children getting changed at a leisure centre was hauled back to court for breaching a sexual harm prevention order.
Andrew Blundell, now 55, was jailed for 18 months in 2015 after admitting making recordings of young girls in the changing rooms of Pendle Wavelengths Leisure Centre in Nelson, Lancashire.
At the time of that case Burnley Crown Court heard Blundell was eventually caught after a young girl "saw a man with a hairy arm crouching down holding a camera" on the floor of her cubicle. When approached by lifeguards and pool staff, Blundell said: "I believe you are waiting for me?"
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Police later arrived and recovered a waterproof camera and a mobile phone from his rucksack. Officers also searched his then home in Bacup and found a computer tower with other images of children getting changed recorded at the swimming baths from January to June 2014.
The court heard that police also found unrelated downloaded indecent images of children including two of category A – showing the most serious forms of child abuse including rape – and three of category C.
Blundell, who now lives in Sheffield Road, Southport, was also made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) restricting his use of the internet and obliging him to inform the police if he was staying anywhere where children may be present.
However Liverpool Crown Court heard today how Merseyside Police officers attended an address in Southport at 10.35am on August 18 this year, finding Blundell in the living room. Two teenagers were also living in the property, although one had turned 18 meaning she was not covered by the order.
Steven Ball, prosecuting, told the court: "The defendant said he had not been living there but stayed there overnight the previous week on five occasions." In Interview Blundell admitted he had stayed at the address and claimed he was not aware he was supposed to contact police.
Brendan Carville, defending, said his client had not committed any offence and there was no danger to the child involved, which was accepted.
Judge Eric Lamb, KC, said the breach was minor but said Blundell "should have been aware" of the terms of his order. He was handed a community order with requirements to complete 25 rehabilitation days and the Horizon sex offenders' course.
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