January 2013 Already convicted Paedophile hid camera in wall to spy on female A sex offender who drilled a hole through a house wall so he could spy on a young woman naked in her bedroom has been jailed for six months. Cambridge Crown Court heard former lorry driver Charles Reed, 60, of Tower Close, Bassingbourn, committed the offence shortly after completing an internet sex offender treatment programme. Reed, who was living in Royston at the time, drilled a hole above a door to the 23-year-old victim’s bedroom and installed a camera so he could watch the images on a television screen. The court heard by committing the offence he also  breached a three-year community order imposed in October 2010 for possessing indecent photographs of children and extreme pornography involving animals, namely dogs, horses, monkeys, chickens and fish. When his latest crimes were uncovered, Reed admitted to police he had done them for sexual gratification. He pleaded guilty to an offence of voyeurism between July and November 2012. Erin Haupt, mitigating, said the images were not recorded and Reed was frank with police about what he had done. Sentencing Reed, Judge Anthony Bate, said: “You installed a camera so you could spy upon a 23-year-old woman while she thought she was in the privacy of her own room. You wanted to see her naked.” The judge said the offence was so serious that Reed’s sentence would have to be immediate imprisonment. He added: “This was carefully planned to avoid discovery.” Judge Bate said the remainder of the three-year community order imposed for the pornography offences should continue and also ruled that Reed must sign the sex offenders’ register for seven years.