Police Comment On Conviction Of Video Voyeur
The conviction of a Turkish national for using video camera to look up women’s skirts was first time in Bermuda that an offence with these circumstances has been successfully prosecuted, the police said this morning.
Yesterday Kubilay Fidan appeared in Magistrates Court where he admitted using video camera to look up women’s skirts. Fidan was jailed for 30 days and Senior Magistrate Archie Warner recommended that be deported after his sentence is completed. Fidan, 41, admitted secretly recording parts of women’s bodies in Miles Market. The Court heard did this by placing a backpack on the floor with a camera in it and using his foot to move the bag.
“This type of offence is nothing new in other jurisdictions, in fact there is specific legislation that covers this type of behaviour within the United Kingdom,” said the police.
“Although these incidents are rare, in an effort to reduce opportunities for these type of opportunistic crimes to occur in future, the Bermuda Police Service encourages women to be vigilant and aware of their surroundings, no matter how familiar it may appear.”
The full police statement is below:
The Bermuda Police Service acknowledges the ‘guilty’ plea of Mr Fidan on Tuesday morning to five counts of committing ‘Indecent Acts in Public’. Additionally, he went on to voluntarily admit to committing twelve other offences of a similar nature; seventeen offences in all.
This case revolved around Mr Fidan using a video recording device to record indecent and inappropriate footage of female victims who were clearly unaware of what was occurring.
This is the first time in Bermuda that an offence with these circumstances has been successfully prosecuted and the punishment handed out by Senior Magistrate sends a clear message to the public that this predatorial behaviour will not be tolerated in our islands of Bermuda.
This type of offence is nothing new in other jurisdictions, in fact there is specific legislation that covers this type of behaviour within the United Kingdom.
Although these incidents are rare, in an effort to reduce opportunities for these type of opportunistic crimes to occur in future, the Bermuda Police Service encourages women to be vigilant and aware of their surroundings, no matter how familiar it may appear.
By nature, this type of offence requires a relatively close proximity between the victim and offender, be aware of any intrusions on your ‘personal space’. If you observe any suspicious activity, contact the police and report the circumstances.
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Yoh Po Po! What happened to the Warwick Secondary perv who was putting coat hook cameras in the girl’s bathrooms up there or was that a student that was never named!? Did you catch him/her?
Excellent observation and question! I totally agree. Some sort of answer would be good. For this pervert what I would like to say Bernews might would not print.
This is sickening no matter what legislation is in place in other jurisdictions,I would lik eto also say that to the minister Mr Dunkley under your portfolio,could you please negoiate with other jurisdictions to take their people and housed them in their prisons.instead of Bermuda having to pay these enormous amounts of money to house them in our prisons.
We do not have a large prison population of foreign nationals and I think it is about time that we get more for our buck and pay the jurisdiction they come from the amounts needed to do their prison terms.we cant expect to put soley the burden on that jurisdiction for crimes committed in ours but can work on an agreement that will help offset our daily expenses to house them.
Many have called for this type of legislation down through the years and it is about time that it be put on the table and taken to the next level,we look at these people being let in Bermuda through immagration as an answer to the employment thiefs that runour business communities,but dont go far enough to really know if their back ground check is legit.I have said it before that we might have terrorist already here ready to recruit so called Bermudians that think they are Rambo.
@Duane,
Europe will take care of the Turkish peeping-tom if you take back all your Bermudian gang bangers that have been relocated to the UK. Fair enough?
Bazinga!
Send him home after a month at Black Dolphin Prison!
All Gun and serious crimes , Bda should start outsourcing to Black Dolphin Prison ,
Then you will truly change the game!
Cha Ching!
#1 Bermuda is a British territory
#2 You’re a £u©k|-|€@d
#3 and you are indeed a £u©k|-|€@d dear sir.
@ Judge Dredd, I suggest you do Yoga at least an hour before writing, thanks.
Or switch to a U$ keyboard so we can understand what the hell you are talking about $$$
The difference is that we as Bermudians have the right to live in the UK. This guy was here as a guest.
Bermudians did NOT chose to be a overseas territory. This was land that the UK did not want no one else to own! So before UK people start making comments like yours, you should learn the history of your own people/ invaders. That’s why so many Indian people are their. India was another country you stole riches from..SO don’t COMPLAIN !!
“you stole riches from”
who is YOU?
you should watch your mouth sayin mess like that buddy
some people might think you are being racist.
cuz just incase you did NOT know…. India is still a tremendously wealthy country. It has sooo much gold, gems, riches, you cannot begin to imagine. This was NOT taken by the evil white man like I always hear you people say.
And just to enlighten you….
the “evil european” came in sail boats and tailored clothing to countries who lived naked, smeared cow pee on their heads, ate human flesh, performed human sacrifices, lived in grass huts held together with cow poo, worshipping non-existant invisible beings as gods and devils….and brought advancement to these nations of peoples who literally lived in the Prehistoric age of development. TO THIS DAY, there are endless peoples across the earth who still live in a stage of development NO GREATER than the cave men of 50,000 years ago and more.
Tribes in New Zealand and Africa still perform cannibalism, and in Brazil tribes bury children alive. All psychotic cultural norms that were wiped out by the “evil europeans” when they colonized the earth.
So before you wanna bash the Brits or the white man in general, have a think at what you wear, where you work, what you earn, what you drive, what you eat, and so forth. And thank who gave this to us all. Cuz otherwise, you and I would be wearing loincloths, catching rabbits, impoverished, barefoot, malnourished, and living in a hut today.
Don’t forget we blacks would be uneducated if it wasn’t for our own paving the way for our human rights. And I didn’t read anything that’ll make areyoueffinserious seem to be racists. Maybe it’s you who’s racists that’s why you’re commenting on the men that’s here allegedly related to gangs. Stfu you knobhead tw@t!
You talk as if Britain took Bermuda off Bermudians.
It was uninhabited when they settled. If another country had have settled here first someone else would be calling themselves Bermudian.
You should learn the history of Bermuda if you’re going to make comments like that.
So you’re telling me that because Bermuda was “forced” to be part of the UK, we have the right to dump our problems on them? Just so you know, at that time in history, it was all about claiming land for the king/queen/etc. Don’t make it sound like Bermuda had a hostile take over. There were no people on Bermuda before the British got here, just animals and plants. There were people in India before the British. Hardly think the British went to the wild hogs and declared, “We claim this land in the name of our king! Do not attempt to defy us!”
Last time I checked according to the O.B.A Bermuda is still a british colony and enjoys all the rights and privalege given to her and her British subjects,so dont insult your own intellegence that you may or may not have.We have all rights to live and work in the European Union and its territories.
Until we become Independant,that is not an issue that we can put on the order paper and if the O.B.A has their way we will be under the Mother country for a long time to come and that might not be a bad thing,considering the state of affairs we are facing in this country.
No dun, we have no right to live and work in those places, we have the privilege. Its about time people started to understand the difference. How many other countries in the world get that privilege? It sure as hell doesn’t work the other way around. We should feel even more privileged that the UK is willing to take the sh!t from off our island, and we do what exactly for them? I highly doubt Easter lilies cut it.
hahahahaha….pow right in the kisser!
So what you in Bermuda for BRIT, who you running from.
I agree, Notingham is home to them all
The guy had at least a modicum of class by filming the women in Miles!
Now what would have made him TRULY perverted would have been doing it in MarketPlace / Arnolds or heaven forbid… Belvins!!
That would’ve been some tough footage to watch!
@ campervan,
Why would we have have to take them back? They are as British as you can get, so why wouldn’t they go to the Motherland? As a result of being a Colony since 1609, don’t get snarky when they want to go HOME.
Hahahahahaha, yeah cos most Bermudians see the UK as ‘home’. Right.
everyone seems to have forgotten about the far worse perv who had video cameras in girls changing rooms at a school. That is FAR worse. what happened to that one? was probably a janitor or teacher.
While I do not condone what this man here did in Miles, I do not think it is fair to give a jail term of any length. Can’t you see the same darn thing at the beach? With younger girls even? It is not like you are seeing something you could not in somewhat normal scenarios.
Personally, as a man, I cannot understand why females enjoy exposing their most sensitive bodily area to the full open air – as with skirts. As a male, I find that way too exposing, and revealing to what is private. But whatever, I can’t complain, and I hope women never stop wearing skirts. Just my opinion on the matter.
I think what the man did is sad – and wrong – but I wouldn’t call him a monster or rate him as some serious perv. There are much worse things going on out there in the world, and even Bermuda.
Anyways I have stopped caring now, so..
What are you his lawyer or wife who didn’t give him enough attention? Take care of ya man, before he becomes a freak! He must have been a real trooper at the job Christmas parties.
If this **** could see the same things at the beach then why didn’t he just go there and film hundreds at one time??? You stupid git sounds like you and he share similar views of being perverted!!!
Ahh thanks for the clarification.
So the Turkish peeping Tom should be extradited back to Turkey and serve out his prison time there so as to save Bermuda a few $, despite that he was caught and convicted of a crime committed here.
And its perfectly cool to relocate Bermudian gang bangers to someone else’s neighbourhood in the UK. I’m sure they don’t mind at all.
Thanks for the update. It all sounds perfectly reasonable.
So should the Bermudian drug criminals currently incarcerated down in the Islands be sent back to West gate to save the poorer island nations that incarcerated them some $?
There was a guy in a wheelchair hanging around Clearwater beach who made the msitake of videoig my daughters on the beach while making vile comments as he did so…they ran after him…trust me he took off at speed but they caught up with him and complained to the police…their reaction…pathetic!so, parents, be mindful who is taking pics of your children….their intent is often not innocent…