Rally driver "Peeping Tom" found guilty of burglary

A rally driver Dunedin said that he was walking in the student area late at night during Orientation Week because he was trying to lose weight.

The truth was much darker.

Bruce Donald Saxton, 54-year-old Judge Thomas Ingram described it as "burglary" following a trial in Dunedin District Court yesterday – "peeping-Tom activities"

When the police arrested Saxton on February 18, he was acquitted. He asked him why he was walking in the north of the city around 11 pm

The defendant told them that he had worked late and felt guilty because he had eaten takeaway after s & # 39; 39, to be registered recently with Jenny Craig

. The police found a scanner in the car of the man that night, which added weight to their case, the judge said.

The court heard that Saxton was seen outside an apartment at Ethel Benjamin Pl.
Feb. 18.

A resident said that she was on her third floor balcony and noticed a man who was lingering lower.

When she returned 10 minutes later, he was still there, she told the court. "He was hanging out near the window of the bedroom," said the resident.

When she saw the flash of a camera go out twice as she opened a curtain, she called her partner
and alerted the police.

"He was there until the police arrived, then he ran through the bushes."

Constable Bryce Johnson, who was working nearby at the time of the call, says he had a brief glimpse of a

He chased the man across a lawn and across a parking lot to Emily Siedeberg Pl where he saw Saxton "walk quickly".

"His behavior suggested that he was in," said Const Johnson

Saxton, the court heard, entered his Mitsubishi vehicle and ha the engine turns when the "lorry". Officer opens the door and stops.

"He was sweating profusely Const Johnson said:

He asked Saxton what he was doing.

The accused replied that he was working in the area and that he had walked around because the streets were there.

At about 23:20, Saxton was arrested and refused to comment on the allegations that night [19659002] There was nothing incriminating found on the phone of the man.

However, the police later found a police scanner in Saxton & # 39; s. "

Turning to reviewing the file, the police found another incident of Tom's voyeur three weeks earlier in the same street.

A "J pupil" testified that she came She had to go out. She opened the curtains and was confronted by a man standing on the edge of her window. quite normally, "she said.

The Stud He described the pipette as" quite chubby ", with stubble, a receding forehead and [traduction]" intense black eyes ".

" The The face is very etched in my memory, "said Ingram J., who said the evidence was not sufficiently reliable for a conviction

.

Mr. Saxton was convicted yesterday at 80 hours of community work and 12 months of supervision

Justice Ingram noted that the respondent had already been sentenced to a similar sentence 12 years ago