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Feb 5

🧵 Leisure centre sex crimes are not one-off crimes by ‘Peeping Toms’ chancing their luck in the mixed-sex changing rooms.

Time and again when a male is caught photographing women and children in the cubicle next to him it’s to add to his collection of illicit photographs and films. Leisure centre predators tend to be multiple offenders.

There was national outrage in April 2024 when two men were sentenced to a total of 22 months after being caught with over 6,000 images of women and children taken in leisure centres all over London and the south-east.

This was not an isolated case. As the examples in this thread demonstrate, predatory men are committing tens, hundreds, even thousands, of crimes in mixed-sex changing rooms all over the country. 1/5

In Derbyshire, a police community support officer was caught accessing images of child sexual abuse. When his hard drive was checked the police also found footage of seven children filmed in the family changing village at Queen’s Park Leisure Centre, Chesterfield. Only five of the children have been identified.

The offender pleaded guilty to several counts of voyeurism and to possessing 365 indecent images of the most serious category A. In addition, he admitted to possessing 262 category B and 686 category C images and 179 prohibited images of children. 2/5

In Bath, a 16-year-old girl realised she was being filmed when she noticed a camera under the changing cubicle of the swimming pool at Bath University. A 39-year-old man was apprehended and when police checked his phone they found he had recorded 32 other girls aged 16-18 (six in the swimming pool cubicles). The police have not been able to identify these girls.
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Feb 1

Leisure centres across the country are becoming crime scenes as sexual predators take advantage of easy access to women and girls getting undressed in the changing room cubicle next to them.

Here we bring you four examples where men have filmed women and girls by sliding a phone under or over a cubicle partition - every one of which could have been prevented if the leisure centre provided single-sex changing rooms for swimmers. 🧵 1/5

In Wales, a man loitering in the unisex changing area at the LC2 in Swansea spotted his prey - a teenage girl - going into a cubicle and entered the one next to it to film her. She spotted his phone, kicked it away and the pervert ran away.

We know what happened because it was caught on CCTV and shown in court. The criminal received a six month jail sentence suspended for two years. 2/5

In Northern Ireland, a voyeur photographed a child at the South Lake Leisure Centre in Craigavon.

Upper Bann DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley said he was aware of the incident and would be seeking an urgent meeting with officials at Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council.

‘It has been brought to my attention by local parents that there are concerns with the safeguarding of children in the unisex changing facilities in South Lake Leisure Centre,’ he said.

‘In this day and age where photographic and video technology is so easily accessible, we really cannot underestimate the potential dangers posed to children when changing in these settings.’

We agree. 3/5

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Women's Rights Network - WRN

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Jan 22

🚨 Why have Northumbria Police @northumbriapol commissioned a survey 👇 targeted at 18-25 yr olds using highly contested ideological language, to inform them how to ‘engage’ with the @ForWomenScot Supreme Court ruling?

Just comply with the law!

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This survey is being carried out by the University of Sunderland @sunderlanduni and was commissioned by Northumbria Police.
It will have been authorised at the highest level.

The Chief Constable is Vanessa Jardine, National Police Chiefs Council lead @policechiefs for ‘LGBTQ+’ issues.

The very same chief who was responsible for the unlawful strip search policy based on self ID. #StateSanctionedSexualAssault

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Why are a police force like @northumbriapol spending public money working out how to engage with a judgment by the highest legal authority in the land?

Did they do this when they permitted men into women’s facilities, or when their Chief pushed for male officers to strip search women - and criminalise us if we objected? Of course not.

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Jan 3

One-third of local council swimming pools ONLY offer mixed-sex changing facilities for swimmers. These ‘changing villages’ are a magnet for sexual predators.

WRN has been collating court reports where males have been convicted of crimes committed in mixed-sex changing rooms. Here are a few examples…

Two men were jailed after being convicted of secretly filming around 6,000 women and children, in swimming pool changing rooms in leisure centres throughout London and the south-east … 1/8

Young girls at leisure centres in Sutton-in-Ashfield and Mansfield were secretly filmed by a Police Community Support Officer from Derbyshire. This man also filmed women and children at Centre Parcs near Nottingham… 2/8

In Bangor, Northern Ireland, a woman’s 11-year-old son saw a hand and a phone appear over the partition of the changing cubicle at the Aurora Leisure Centre. The man later appeared in court... 3/8

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Dec 15, 2025

Day 15 of our Christmas campaign.

These are not just women’s lingerie fitting rooms, these are @marksandspencer mixed sex lingerie fitting rooms and they are open to men.

Our old friends at M&S, purveyors of the nation’s underwear, are pulling a huge con trick on their female customer base, and subjecting female changing room assistants to the behaviour of predatory men.

One woman’s dreadful shopping experience below – and the response from M&S is a shocker too.

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A female customer of @marksandspencer contacted WRN after an appalling experience at the lingerie changing rooms in their Kingston store.

All these cubicles are in one enclosed space in the female lingerie area, and the customer naturally expected them to be for females only. However, while in the changing rooms, she noticed a male person emerging from the cubicle opposite hers. This naturally distressed her.

So she wrote to M&S to request their official policy in relation to lingerie fitting rooms.

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The female customer asked:

⛔️Are these facilities intended to be women-only spaces?
⛔️If they are women-only, how is this policy applied in practice?
⛔️If they are open to all, how does this sit with the decision of the Supreme Court?

She also asked how the policy for the lingerie changing rooms aligned with a recent public commitment by @marksandspencer that bra-fitting services in these rooms will only be provided by female staff.

So what was the answer from M&S?

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Dec 12, 2025

Day 12 of the WRN Christmas campaign and we return to @Morrisons – but not for the Christmas shopping.

We’ve highlighted some appalling incidents there already, but there are many more. Even young children are not safe in Morrisons’ toilets, which seem to be a magnet for predators.

Setting aside the ‘Katie’ Dolatwoski incident, the pattern there is still shocking.

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This was an incident in a Loughborough @Morrisons.

A 16 year girl with learning difficulties was allegedly raped in a baby changing area.

“I tried to leave and he would not let me. I was talking loud because I wanted someone to know that something was not right in the baby changing room.
“He told me to shut up.”

2/4guardian-series.co.uk/news/9476489.l…

In an incident at a Kendal @Morrisons, this man admitted that he pointed a hidden camera at a child using a toilet there and built up a collection of indecent images of children.

3/4thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/19442975.…

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