November 2013 School lifeguard used iPhone to take pictures of females changing & possessed child abuse images A school lifeguard who was found guilty of secretly filming women in changing rooms also admitted having child abuse images at his home. Swimming instructor Craig Brown used his iPhone to carry out covert filming while he was working in schools and leisure pools and took hundreds of pictures of unsuspecting victims. A jury took less than an hour to find Brown guilty of a string of hidden camera offences over a two year period. They were then told that Brown had admitted before the trial began that he had been doing the same thing over nearly a decade. After returning guilty verdicts on Brown the jury at Perth Sheriff Court was told that he had also admitted two charges of downloading and saving child abuse images featuring girls as young as 13. Brown worked at numerous schools and leisure centres across Scotland and used his job as cover for his criminal activity. The gym and swim coach admitted using his phone to covertly take pictures and videos of unsuspecting women in at least five locations. The 31-year-old also admitted filming himself performing a sex act at the side of pool in a Dundee High School and sending the video on to a woman in America. Brown was finally caught when a swimmer spotted his phone poking under her cubicle door when he was working as a fitness coach at Perth Leisure Pool. The jury was told that a major investigation took place into Brown’s hidden camera activities across Fife, Perth and Kinross, Dundee and Angus. Pools and schools where he was known to have worked were studied to see if they matched the backgrounds on the images found on his phone. A caravan park, three Dundee high schools and Perth Leisure Pool all featured on hundreds of images found by police forensics experts. Brown – who used the term “voyeuristic” when searching for internet pornography and images of abuse – admitted taking all of the footage but denied it was to satisfy his sexual interest. “I would either put my phone in the corner or underneath the door. It wasn’t the image I was interested in, it was the actual act itself. I am disgusted with myself,” Brown said. A police search of his computer found more than 1000 secretly filmed pictures of women in changing rooms and public toilets downloaded from internet sites. Brown was found guilty of seven charges relating to covert filming of females in changing rooms between April 26, 2010 and February 8, 2012. The locations were Craigie, Menzieshill and St John’s RC High Schools in Dundee, Perth Leisure Pool and the Red Lion Caravan Park in Arbroath. Brown, of Balunie Crescent, Dundee, also admitted that between April 26, 2010 and June 6, 2012 he took, or permitted to be taken, indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children at his home. He admitted a further charge of possessing indecent images. Sentencing on Brown was deferred for reports until December and he was placed on the sex offenders register.