Pervert police officer who secretly filmed woman undressing is jailed
A police officer who secretly filmed a woman on his iPad undressing before having a shower has been jailed.
Kieran Ball, 30, who served with the British Transport Police (BTP) in Coventry at the time, propped up the device on the bathroom windowsill of a home address.
The victim, who was known to Ball, went to shower on June 10 2021 when she noticed the iPad.
It had been filming her for nearly six minutes – including when she began to undress – Warwick Crown Court heard.
She took a video of the iPad on her mobile phone and reported the incident to the authorities.
Warwickshire Police seized Ball’s mobile devices and the British Transport Police suspended him.
Ball never accepted any wrongdoing, insisting he was using the iPad to ‘pleasure himself’ as officers accused him of voyeurism.
In April earlier this year, a jury at Leamington Crown Court found him guilty of voyeurism and, following an accelerated misconduct hearing the following month, he was fired from the force.
Police bosses said Ball’s actions amounted to gross misconduct.
He was sentenced to 12 months behind bars on Friday and handed a restraining order banning him from contacting the victim or being within 100 metres of her home.
Ball will be on the Sex Offender’s Register for the next decade, a judge also ruled.
Deputy Chief Constable Alistair Sutherland: ‘Ball is a convicted sex offender who attempted to invade a woman’s privacy in a space she had every right to feel safe in – so it is absolutely right that he’s been punished for the abhorrent crime he committed.
‘He has clearly undermined the thousands of BTP officers who day in and day out work tirelessly to protect women and girls, and rightly hold themselves to the highest standards of integrity whether they are at work, at home, or anywhere else.’
Ball stressed that the police did not seek disciplinary action against Ball after the incident came to light for fear of it ‘prejudicing the criminal proceedings’.
‘Achieving the right outcome for the victim was something we cared very strongly about,’ the constable said.
‘His actions are entirely inconsistent with our values,’ DCC Sunderland added, ‘and there is clearly no place in our force for individuals who behave like him.’
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