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Jake James Devereux (26) appeared yesterday in Dunedin District Court to be sentenced on five counts of making an intimate visual recording, as well as charges of robbery and resistance to the police.
Devereux was initially sentenced to 18 months of intensive supervision in May 2019 on the main charge of making an intimate recording, while the other charges were to “hang over his head,” Judge Michael Crosbie said.
Devereux’s earlier request for the name suppression, on the grounds that his surname was shared by several prominent professionals in the city, had been rejected.
Devereux’s offense began in February 2018 when he held his phone in a position to film a woman’s skirt as she was getting on a bus on George St.
That May, Devereux was in the same area of the CBD, waiting in a crosswalk, when he activated the camera on his phone to film a woman next to him in a skirt while pretending to tie her shoelaces.
The next day, he employed similar tactics and filmed a woman outside the Farmers department store, but when he found another target inside Princes St Night n Day they saw him.
Devereux crouched next to a woman in a long white dress, pretending to be interested in items on a low shelf.
He held the phone between his legs. Devereux was kicked out of the store by security.
On February 21, 2018, he checked into the Leviathan Hotel.
That morning, Devereux saw a woman get into the shower, waited for the faucet to turn on, and placed her cell phone under the shower screen.
Devereux was arrested and released on strict bail conditions, but was caught again trying to film the skirts of two women at a dairy in December 2018.
Judge Crosbie said reports after his initial sentencing showed Devereux was at low risk of recidivism, that he had expressed remorse and that he was seeing a psychologist.
It also took into account the fact that Devereux had spent 10 months in custody.
However, that did not take away the seriousness of the crime, which Judge Crosbie described as degrading.
He sentenced Devereux to nine more months of intensive supervision.
