Jailed paedophile gets two more years for upskirting

A jailed paedophile has been handed a further sentence after admitting upskirting and other sexual offences.

Kyle Spires, 36, previously of March, Cambridgeshire, was jailed for 28 months in December 2023 after admitting making indecent photographs of a child and voyeurism.

Cambridgeshire Police said the delivery driver had carried out further offences while awaiting that sentence, and had now admitted possessing an extreme pornographic image, making indecent images of children and taking videos under somebody's clothing in order to see their genitals or underwear.

Spires, whose address was given as HMP Five Wells, was sentenced to two more years in prison at Cambridge Crown Court on Friday.

Police said Spires' mobile phone was seized in October 2023 following a tip-off he had been uploading indecent images of children to the internet.

It contained 15 upskirting videos of 10 different victims filmed between February and July 2023 - while Spires was working as a delivery driver.

Investigators said eight of the victims had never been identified.

His phone also contained indecent images, including 64 category A videos – the most severe - and 25 extreme pornographic videos of adults engaging in sexual acts with animals.

Although Spires initially denied any criminal activity, he later pleaded guilty.

Police said the new jail term would be served "on top of the 28-month sentence imposed from the previous investigation relating to indecent images".

Det Con Matthew Walshe, who investigated, said: "Spires committed these offences while on bail, having already been arrested for making indecent images of children and voyeurism in 2022.

"Even after pleading guilty to those offences, he continued to offend while waiting to be sentenced."

Passing sentence, Judge Philip Grey said Spires' activities were both "criminal and serious", saying he did not think Spires was able to resist what he was doing.

Having heard a victim impact statement from one of Spires' upskirting victims, Judge Grey said the woman was "angry and has every right to be", adding that she had been deeply disturbed and had lost her trust in men she did not know.

As well as his jail sentence, Spires will remain on the sex offenders register for 10 years.

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