October 2022

Pervert caught spying on teenage girl

A peeping tom and previously convicted paedophile has been jailed for spying on a 17-year-old girl as she slept on her bed naked at 6.30 in the morning.

The horrified teenager woke up to hear the sound of a camera phone snapping and saw a figure peering through a narrow gap in the blinds that covered her ground floor window.

She called her mother who shouted at prowler Kristoffer Roberts, pictured, causing him to flee. He was identified from doorbell video footage and his fingerprints were found on a beer bottle he dropped at the scene.

Roberts was already a registered sex offender, having previously been jailed in 2014 for using a phone to take 657 ‘upskirt’ pictures or videos of unsuspecting women.

He went on to attack his girlfriend so violently while high on drink and drugs that she was left traumatised and unable to carry on her training as a nurse.

Roberts, aged 29, previously of Drum Way, Heathfield, Newton Abbot, but now of Abelia Close, Paignton, admitted voyeurism, strangulation and battery.

He was jailed for a total of 22 months and put on the sex offenders’ register for a further seven years by Judge Peter Johnson at Exeter Crown Court.

He told him: ‘The victim of your voyeurism was a 17-year-old girl lying in her own bed asleep and naked because of the temperature. She became aware of someone standing by the window and of a clicking noise being made by a mobile phone taking photographs.’

Miss Felicity Payne, prosecuting, said the girl’s mother called police during a spell of very hot weather in August 2020 to report that a prowler had been taking pictures of her daughter through a small gap in the blinds.

He was identified through CCTV footage and arrested wearing the same baseball cap. He also dropped a beer bottle at the scene with his fingerprints on it.

Miss Payne said Roberts put his partner’s neck in an arm lock and strangled her three times with increasing force after she told him to leave her home in Torquay because he was drunk.

She was so badly affected by the ordeal and by his behaviour during their relationship that she failed nursing exams and is now appealing to be allowed to continue her degree.

September 2014

Pervert filmed up the skirts of 660 women and had child abuse images is jailed

A smartphone voyeur has been jailed after he attacked his pregnant girlfriend during an argument at their home.

Kristoffer Roberts, 20, from Newton Abbot was on a suspended sentence and was supposed to have been attending a sex offenders’ course when he attacked victim Lisa Barker.

Roberts, aged 20, of Drum Way, Heathfield, near Newton Abbot, denied battery but was convicted at a trial at Torbay Magistrates and the case was sent to Exeter Crown Court for sentence.

He was jailed for a total of six and a half months and the judge made a restraining order banning him from contacting Miss Barker.

When Roberts was 19 and living in Torquay, he admitted secretly filming up the skirts of 660 women and having a collection of child abuse images.

He would use his smartphone to film up the skirts of women when they bent down in shops.

He compiled a huge library of still and moving images of the underwear of unsuspecting victims who had no idea they had been filmed, Exeter Crown Court was told.

Police also recovered indecent images of children and extreme pornography.

Roberts, formerly of All Saints Road, Torquay, admitted two offences of outraging public decency by ‘committing a series of acts which were lewd and obscene and consisted of secretly recording women’s buttocks and underwear’.

In all he is alleged to have taken 314 still and 174 moving images between April and December 2011 and 143 still and 29 moving images between February and April this year.

He also admitted five offences of making or possessing a total of 60 indecent images of children, including some showing adults having sexual activity with children. He pleaded guilty to a further charge of possessing extreme pornography. 

June 2014

Pervert failed to attend sex offenders’ programme

A mobile phone voyeur has been warned he faces jail after failing to keep appointments with probation officers who were helping him treat his bizarre obsession.

Kristoffer Roberts was ordered to take part in a sex offenders’ course and do unpaid work in the community after he admitted taking 660 secret photos of unsuspecting women shoppers.

His technique was to use his phone to film up the skirts of shoppers, schoolgirls or female college students without them knowing and police found the images on his computer after he was investigated for accessing child abuse images.

Roberts escaped with a five month suspended sentence when he admitted outraging public decency last September and returned to Exeter Crown Court because he breached the terms of a supervision order.

His sentence included 70 hours of unpaid work, two years supervision, and attending the Thames Valley Sex Offenders’ Programme.

Judge Francis Gilbert, QC, adjourned his case to allow him to get legal representation after telling him:”You are at high risk of the suspended sentence being activated unless something is very strongly put in your case.

“You have a bad record of compliance with these orders and of failing to comply with the sex offenders’ register.”

Miss Eleanor Purkis, prosecuting, said Roberts failed to attend for either supervision meetings or unpaid work on December 22, February 25, and April 22 and 30.

Roberts said he missed the appointments because a domestic dispute led to him being banned from going to Torbay, where the meetings were held.

In the original case Roberts, aged 19, of All Saints Road, Torquay, admitted two offences of outraging public decency and an unrelated burglary in which he stole a friend’s laptop.

He admitted taking 314 still and 174 moving images between April and December 2011 and 143 still and 29 moving images between February and April this year.

He also admitted five offences of making or possessing a total of 60 indecent images of children, including some showing adults having sexual activity with children, and one of possessing extreme pornography.

Roberts was arrested after his phones were seized and examined by police when his behaviour aroused suspicion. The images were found three mobiles and the child abuse images on his computer.

He had previously been cautioned in 2008 when he was just 14 for identical behaviour after being caught snapping women shoppers as they bent over supermarket freezers.