Speaking of visiting Scotland to sample whisky – refer to my last post – you might want to avoid staying at the Rosebank Guest House in Perth *.
The owner apparently gets his jollies by secretly filming guests having sex and then watching it out in his shed in the backyard. He allegedly used tiny cameras disguised as smoke detectors in the guest rooms.
James Stratton, 67, has pleaded guilty to a range of offences between 2005 and 2009 including disorderly conduct, installing covert video cameras, recording devices and viewing monitors within bedrooms used by lodgers.
On one occasion in 2008 he allegedly kicked two male lodgers out the house after watching recordings of them engaged in homosexual activity.
Stratton had recorded around a dozen lodgers in a year and was caught in April last year when a female lodger became suspicious. The woman heard noises in the attic and discovered a covert camera. Three more devices were found by police when they searched the home. Wiring from the cameras was found leading out of the house, through the garage and into a shed in the backyard where there was a large flat screen TV, a camera switcher and a large hard disk recording device.
But not only was he perving on his guests. He reportedly had so much x-rated footage he had to hire a storage unit at an airport to stash it all. More than 8000 indecent images of children and 622 incident film of children were also found.
His wife was apparently not aware of what he got up to out in the shed.
* although by the looks of their web site it looks like the place is under new ownership.
