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28 March 2024

'Mannequin' man spies on ladies in toilet

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Man "dressed like a mannequin" has been caught spying on women using the ladies toilet at a shopping mall.

Student Joel Hardman was wearing a mask and wig at Birmingham’s showpiece Bullring mall when a shopper reported seeing someone "dressed like a mannequin" walk into the loos.

He later emerged from a locked cubicle and admitted performing a sex act.

And Birmingham Magistrates’ Court heard Hardman’s phone contained three images of women's feet taken beneath cubicle doors and an audio recording of a flushing toilet.

Hardman, 22, of Norfolk Road, Edgbaston, yesterday pleaded guilty to observing another person doing a private act for his own sexual gratification.

Jonathan Purser, prosecuting, said Hardman, believed to be an MSc student at the University of Birmingham, told a Bullring security guard: "Yes, I've been a bit weird."