A hair stylist for the popular U.K. fashion retailer ASOS pleaded guilty this week to voyeurism after he hid a spy cam in the men’s bathroom at a summer work party.
28-year-old Dominic Hendy says he planted the spy cam in the bathroom because he was “sex-starved” after breaking up with his boyfriend.
The incident at a company party for 2,000 people last month. Hendy slipped the camera under some rolls of toiler paper in a single-person stall. It recorded guys going to the bathroom all night.
Eventually, a member of the cleaning crew found it and handed it over to a manager, believing it someone’s lost property. That’s when they realized… it was a camera!
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According to prosecutor Chidi Ikwuakolam, the camera captured full-frontal views of various men, recorded for Hendy’s sexual gratification.
Hendy’s lawyer, Alexander Goscimski, argued that, while this may be true, his client hadn’t had sex in a year and was depressed and “not thinking straight.”
Hendy’s probation officer, Patrick Acres, testified on his behalf, saying the hair stylist had recently broken up with his boyfriend and that it “sent him into a spiral of anxiety.”
“One way of coping was to self-medicate with drugs, including ketamine and crystal meth,” Acres said. “These drugs lower inhibitions quite drastically and there was some use of pornography, and with the drugs, that led him down this route of setting up the camera.”
Hendy says he “now feels quite sick” about what he did and has promised never do it again.
After pleading guilty, a judge sentenced him to 150 hours of community service, and must pay fines. He must also register as a sex offender.
Chrisk
If that’s his actual picture then this guy would have no problem finding sex so I don’t buy the lonely argument. However if he was doing meth then I wouldn’t be surprised.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
100? cosign, ya pretty much took the words off my keyboard!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
100%!
jpcolter
That’s one of the stupidest comments I’ve read in a long time. Since when don’t good looking guys get lonely like everyone else?
Chrisk
Lonely meaning “sex-starved”.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
He hot, too bad face will be all methed up in a year….
Vince
That’s what I miss about my twenties. You could trash your body on a regular basis and still look and feel great. I try that shit now a days and I’m looking like the crypt keeper 2 days on while on my knees praying for salvation from the pain. Oh well. 🙁
justgeo
Ditto who knew?Chem sex is a bitch.
barkomatic
I’m guessing this is a kink of his. He’s got the looks that should get him plenty of sexual options as ChrisK pointed out.
Being put on the sex offender registry is worse than jail these days.
buzzy58
You’ve got that right. About 20 years ago, someone sent me child porn along with a virus. I didn’t know what the email was and like an idiot opened it. Well the pictures opened along with the virus. My computer shut itself down and I took it in to get fixed. They found the pictures and so the police got involved. Even though I had no history of ANY pedophilia before, the court said, “It is on YOUR computer, so you are GUILTY!” I have been on the sex offender list for the past 20 years and have not been able to work since. To make things worse, I was a High School Teacher. They took my licence to teach away. They printed my name in all the papers and the t.v. news so my reputation was ruined.
Mozo83
Please, a cyclops could get laid on Grindr. Dude, own your perviness — but keep it to fantasy.
Brian
This does not need to be international news. You’re posting this because it’s salacious enough to get clicks, and with clicks you get ad revenue. But it’s not really newsworthy, and it definitely does not impact people outside the UK. He’s not a hypocritical politician, he’s not influencing laws and policies, he’s not powerful or rich. He was already convicted by a court, so it’s not as if he’s getting away with it. There is nothing to justify posting his photo and making him famous.
Black Pegasus
@Brian
True. It was posted on Queerty because the story is salacious and the guy is cute. And yes, it was posted for the clicks too.
DarkZephyr
“Posted for the clicks” meaning that a news blog wants people to read their news articles? How surprising and devious of them. One would never imagine that news blogs would want such a thing.
batesmotel
Obviously the biggest thing people will notice is he’s easy on the eyes and should have no problem finding sex. Just log on Grindr. But if he was on meth then he likely doesn’t look as good as his pic posted on the article. Likely deteriorated and disoriented. No one will sleep with that. This was more about the rush of being a voyeur.
Jack Meoff
The ‘I was on drugs and depressed’ excuse that people are using so much these days to get out of trouble is starting to wear a bit thin.
DarkZephyr
It seemed to work for him. He’s thrashed now though on the sex offender registry. And he really does deserve to be there.
James
EWWWWW. WHAT A CREEP.
Lacuevaman
i dont believe any of this
MaxTaste
Do math, not meth.
baal61
and now he can get both in prison.
dubstepskater94
Wow! Just Wow… I mean, that’s just wrong… I’m single BUT I don’t think I’ve hit that “spy cam in public bathroom” yet. True a guy gets lonely (hell I do sometimes… ikr? crazy) but why would this guy not just watch some porn (and no, before anybody says it… what he filmed wasn’t porn guys… lol) If he wants to see a guy piss, I’ll send him a vid of me… for a minimal fee ?.
DarkZephyr
Maybe he wanted free stuff.