With one serial prowler already behind bars, awaiting sentencing, police say it appears another neighbourhood in the shadow of Western University has been worked over by a second.

Arrested last week last for trespassing, the latest suspect now faces 14 charges of voyeurism after student reports dating back a year about a man creeping around with a video camera.

Police found images of 15 women on electronic devices seized from the suspect’s home after his arrest and linked those to earlier complaints, London police Const. Ken Steeves said Tuesday.

“The initial complaints were that females saw what appeared to be a hand-held camera (pointing through) either their bedroom or bathroom window. That’s all we had initially — we didn’t have a suspect,” he said.

The first complaint came in to police a year ago, only a few months after the now-49-year-old serial prowler and sexual voyeur Bradley Priestap was convicted of 12 of 16 charges.

Priestap — nabbed red-handed by undercover officers — had preyed on female university students living off-campus in the area to the south of the university’s Richmond St. gates, in and around Huron St.

The latest complaints came from a different off-campus district, another student zone, with police warning residents east of Western’s Richmond St. gates, and north to King’s College, about reports of a prowler and to take precaution and call police about any suspicious behaviour.

After the first complaint last October, another report of a video camera in a window came in April 2014, and a third in July.

Steeves said police had “such limited information” at first, they didn’t want to unnecessarily alarm the community. “(But) as we got more complaints, then we realized this was an issue.”

Last Monday, police arrested a man with a video camera near Richmond and Cheapside streets, charging him with six counts of trespassing at night. They seized his camera and searched his east-end home.

In the week that followed, officers identified five females connected to prowling incidents ranging from October 2013 to Sept. 29, 2014, Steeves said.

Aside from those women, police have seen recordings of 10 other females, he said.

“These females should have the right to their own privacy. With that, we are encouraging people, especially females, to keep blinds closed at night, window coverings, windows and doors,” said Steeves.

Fourth-year Western student Lindsay Tarbutt lives on Barnard St. in a house with five other young female students.

“There was definitely a sense of relief,” she said of learning about the arrest.

Tarbutt’s neighbours are six young female students. The girls were “very aware of the situation,” she said, standing just steps away from King’s University College.

Tarbutt has lived in the area for four years and first heard about the prowler at the beginning of the school year in 2013 from a Facebook page for Western students.

In response to those incidents, as well as general safety concerns, Tarbutt and her roommates equipped their home’s windows with blinds sporting a patterned, textured film that prevents passers-by from seeing inside.

“I guess there wasn’t much more we could do,” she said.

Walter Figueiredo, 49, is charged with six counts of trespass by night and 14 counts of voyeurism.

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--with files from Dan Brown

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THE CHARGES

6 counts of trespassing

14 counts of voyeurism

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VOYEURISM

To make a visual recording of a person who is in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy. For example, if the person is nude or engaged in sexual activity.