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Police issued CCTV image of Smith at the leisure centre
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A Peeping Tom left a 15-year-old swimmer terrified of getting changed when he used a mobile phone to film her over the top of a cubicle.
Edward Smith locked himself in a neighbouring cubicle in the mixed gender changing area as a group of swimmers aged ten to 17 were ending a training session.
He waited for the swimmers to get out and then held his hand up to take photos of the naked girl, who screamed in horror when she spotted his phone.
Smith fled the changing room at the Exe Valley Leisure Centre in Tiverton but police released a grainy CCTV image which led to the 40-year-old farmer being identified and arrested.
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Callum Pillman
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A pair of masked robbers have been jailed for a knife attack which left the victim with horrific life-threatening injuries.
Callum Pillman and Shaun Taylor attacked 19-year-old Marcus Goold in a public park at Ilfracombe in January after arranging to meet to buy cocaine from him.
He suffered five deep knife wounds and only survived because the first policeman at the scene cleared his airway and used chest compressions to bring him back to life.
He lost consciousness and was sure he was going to die.
He was airlifted to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth where surgeons removed his spleen and part of his bowel in a life-saving emergency operation.
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Exeter Crown Court. Picture: Archant
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A drug driver has been banned after he crashed his car during a police chase in North Devon.
James Brogan was so high on cannabis that he lit a cigarette in the wreckage of his vehicle as police tried to free him and giggled while he was being treated in hospital.
He had been celebrating his 24th birthday the night before the crash last July and drove so erratically on the North Devon link road that other drivers alerted the police.
He almost caused one accident by stopping dead and then weaved across the road randomly, causing oncoming cars to swerve away.
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Exeter Crown Court
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A man who took part in a mass brawl on Bideford Quay has been spared an immediate jail sentence after he suffered a serious head injury in a second incident on the same night.
Charlie Lance kicked and punched a helpless man who was on the ground in the stairwell of public conveniences near the Lundy Office on the afternoon of December 30, 2019.
He suffered a significant head injury in an apparently unrelated assault elsewhere in Bideford a couple of hours later.
He needed specialist neurological treatment in hospital and has been left with epilepsy, Exeter Crown Court was told.
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Exeter Crown Court. Picture: Archant
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A pregnant woman was caught on CCTV repeatedly kicking a man during a mass brawl on Bideford Quay.
Michelle Weeks was one of three people who set on the victim near the public toilets, leaving him with severe bruising to his face and injuries to his arm where he was bitten by his own dog.
A group of teenagers who were gathered nearby were seen on CCTV fleeing in alarm as the violence broke out on the night before New Year’s Eve 2019.
Weeks was 18 weeks pregnant when she joined the attack but suffered a miscarriage a few days later which she attributed to being tasered by the police and having an epileptic fit.