January 2005 Jail for paedophile neighbour A judge described a civil servant as an “electronic peeping Tom” after hearing how he filmed women neighbours in their bedrooms with a video camera. Police seized the incriminating tapes while investigating Jonathan Hey for downloading material from an American website showing children being sexually abused. Paedophile Hey, 29, filmed neighbours in their bedrooms while they were in various stages of undress, Leeds Crown Court an was told. His actions, said Judge Brian Duckworth, were an “appalling breach of privacy”. He added: “If police hadn’t discovered the film, it could have got into other peoples hands.” Hey, a clerk with the Department of Work and Pensions and formerly of Moseley Wood Walk, Cookridge, Leeds, was jailed for a total of 12 months after admitting voyeurism, having 2,511 indecent photographs of children and distributing indecent photographs by email. Nikki Peers, prosecuting, said police traced Hey after he subscribed to a US-based Internet site supplying images of child abuse images. In April last year, officers searched his home and seized computer equipment, CDs and miscellaneous papers. He admitted paying for pornography out of curiosity but went on to download images on to his computer for nearly four years. Miss Peers revealed a number of computer disks were recovered from his workplace at Quarry House, Leeds, together with videos. “They contained home made images of women and girls being filmed from his home address in the street and also in peoples bedrooms in houses opposite.”