A MAN who was caught videoing up women's skirts and searching the Internet for child pornography was jailed for six months yesterday.
Salesman Terence Dickinson puzzled a store detective who saw him touring shops carrying a black briefcase with a baseball cap hanging from one corner.
The detective, Stephen Fitzgerald, wondered what Dickinson, 52, was up to when he placed the case on the floor near women and removed the cap.
As he followed him around the High Street in Stokesley, he decided to challenge married Dickinson, said Paul Newcombe, prosecuting.
Mr Fitzgerald identified himself and then removed the cap to reveal a protruding video camera lens.
Police were called and inside the case they found the camera, photographs of women taken from under their skirts, and a pair of knickers.
Two days earlier, they had searched the home of Dickinson, who worked for a sports equipment firm, and found 97 images of children under 16 on a computer belonging to his wife, said Mr Newcombe.
The case cost him his job, marriage and his home, said Richard Bennett, defending.
Dickinson had to resign from his job and the couple's home was now for sale while he lived in Sunderland.
Dickinson, of Collingwood Chase, Brotton, East Cleveland, pleaded guilty to outraging public decency by behaving in an indecent manner on September 4 and six charges of making indecent photographs of children on September 2.
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