London, Sep 18(ANI): Declan Crosbie, who was caught peering over the top of cubicles as women of the Chinese Olympic swimming team were changing at a sports centre in Leeds, has been spared jail by a lenient judge, but has been banned from entering female changing rooms for five years.
A judge at the Leeds Crown Court said he thought the public would be better protected from Crosbie by a community order rather than sending him to prison because it would guarantee he would go on a sex offenders' treatment programme.
A previous hearing had heard how a woman reported seeing Crosbie enter the changing room alongside members of the Chinese team, who were training at the pool ahead of the London 2012 Olympics.
Crosbie, from Lea Farm Place, Leeds, later handed himself in to police and pleaded guilty last month to trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence.
The defendant was jailed for three years in 2009 after trespassing in a private home and he was found standing over a sleeping student, whose trousers had been pulled down.
The Recorder of Leeds, Judge Peter Collier QC, said the 2009 jail sentence was passed in the hope Crosbie would be sent on a treatment course but it never happened.
Giving him a three-year community order, Judge Collier said this would guarantee he would attend the course.
"I'm satisfied it is on the public interest and long term interest of better protection of the public that I make a community order in your case today," the Daily Mail quoted Judge Collier, as saying.
At the last hearing, the judge queried if the case should be dealt with under special fast-track Olympic rules.
The judge said it was technically an Olympic offence but there was no suggestion the defendant knew who the women were. (ANI)
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