Sunday, June 27, 2010

Television producer who filmed himself having sex with women jailed

Published: 12:37PM GMT 04 March 2010

Benjamin Wilkins: Television writer who filmed himself carrying sex with women jailed Benjamin Wilkins Photo: PA

Inner London Crown Court listened Benjamin Wilkins was held when his partner found a accumulate of DVDs in his loft.

Judge Roger Chapple told the 37-year-old he had ""betrayed"" the certitude of his victims.

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The decider pronounced the outcome on the women that had been filmed had to be deliberate when sentencing Wilkins.

He added: "No disbelief they were wrestling with any series of emotions when they detected what you had done. One of them being outrage.

"What you did represents a cruel, greedy profanation of the certitude they put in you."

Wilkins, a BBC London producer, was additionally systematic to pointer the sex offenders register for 10 years.

The justice listened he hid one camera in his lavatory and an additional in the glow warning without delay on top of the bed in the room of his London flat.

They were related up to his computer tough expostulate that authorised him to send the drive-in theatre to DVD.

The drive-in theatre were finished over a three-year duration from 2005 but Wilkins distant the complement prior to his girlfriend, with whom he had a son, changed in to the home.

It was when she was relocating her effects in to the loft that she found the discs and recognized one of the names on them as an ex-girlfriend of Wilkins.

After she watched the DVD, she sent it to the lady concerned and they motionless to go to the police.

A plant stroke matter finished by one of the women was review to the court.

The woman, who cannot be identified, pronounced she had indispensable counselling after she found out what he had done.

She settled she was as well abashed to discuss it her family what had happened and pronounced it left her "feeling violated, unwashed and sick".

Nicola Kay, fortifying Wilkins, pronounced he had not distributed the discs that were available "purely for Mr Wilkins own gratification" and all the passionate encounters had been consensual.

The decider review from a minute Wilkins wrote to his victims in that he certified "a distressing profanation of trust".

Wilkins pleaded guilty to eleven charges of voyeurism at Camberwell Magistrates" Court progressing this year.

Ms Kay told the justice Wilkins had quiescent from his pursuit in Aug 2008, nonetheless his partner had stranded by him notwithstanding the "exceptional circumstances" of the case.

She said: "Of course, he has had to surprise his own family that has been a shock for his aged mother."

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