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A "deviant" voyeur secretly filmed a woman trying on a dress in a supermarket changing room - but was caught when her nine-year-old daughter saw what was happening.

The young girl screamed: "Somebody is filming my mummy" and security staff were alerted, a court heard.

Neil Terry, 48, of Buckingham Street South, Scunthorpe, denied voyeurism on November 29 last year but was convicted after a trial at Grimsby Magistrates' Court.

He had committed a similar gross intrusion into privacy before by looking at a naked sleeping woman after lifting her duvet.

Craig Lowe, prosecuting, told a sentencing hearing at Grimsby Crown Court that the woman and her daughter were at Sainsbury's on Doncaster Road, Scunthorpe, and went to the changing rooms.

The mother was trying on a dress but heard her daughter scream: "Somebody is filming my mummy."

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There was a mobile phone on the floor between the divider to two changing cubicles and the camera was face up.

Terry had knelt down to put it there.

The woman tried to stand on the phone to stop it being snatched back but failed. Her daughter told a store attendant what had happened.

Security staff attended and Terry left the disabled changing room with his phone in his hand. He had clearly deleted any images he had taken.

He was escorted out of the store and he was arrested the next day after CCTV was viewed.

He denied trying to film the woman and claimed that he had dropped his phone from his pocket.

Terry had a previous conviction for voyeurism in April 2017 after an incident where he went into a naked woman's bedroom in her caravan at 1.45am and lifted her duvet as she slept and looked at her.

He had been given a one-year community order for that offence.

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He had a caution for sexual assault in 2015 and a conviction for a public order offence in 2001.

Chris Dickins, mitigating, said that Terry continued to deny the matter and had been assessed as being a high risk of similar offending.

"He certainly hasn't covered himself in glory and, not only that, there is his failure to acknowledge his deviance and that's a big problem," said Mr Dickins.

"He can't understand why he has been drawn into this and he wants to find the cause of it."

A serious feature of the case was that the girl had to give evidence before the trial.

She had been more affected by the matter than her mother and would not try on clothes in shops any more.

Recorder Gavin Doig said that it was only thanks to the girl's courage and observation that the matter came to light while the woman was in the changing cubicle.

"Her daughter was outside and was able to see what you were doing," said Recorder Doig.

"Your actions undermine public confidence in these facilities.

"You have no insight into your offence, which you continue to deny. There is no prospect of rehabilitation.

"You present a risk to women and girls by the commission of similar offences in the future."

Terry was jailed for nine months and was ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years.

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