The world’s greatest pervert

If there’s ever a world championship for peeping toms, surely Thomas Daley (some reports say “Daly”), 45 would be one of the favourites to win.

Daley is the landlord of 16 apartments in Norristown, located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a few miles north of Philadelphia, USA.

On 19th September 2008, he was arrested for spying on his female tenants.

And if you thought this was a normal male preoccupation, something like what Ahmad Bakhtiar Abdul Kayoom did to model Nasha Aziz several years ago, this is something on a much bigger scale.

He was only found out when a female tenant’s boyfriend, while changing a lightbulb in her apartment’s bathroom noticed a camera hidden behind the mirror.

The police, after being alerted, found 4 other “micro pinhole-style video cameras” in the apartment whose wires appeared to go down a wall into the basement which only Daley had access to.

Further checks revealed that there were hidden cameras and audio equipment in a further 2 of 4 apartments Daley owned, all occupied by female tenants. They were located in the bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms.

Some of the cameras would be activated when lights to the room it’s installed in was switched on.

The cameras were linked to the internet, which enabled Daley to watch the women in various states of undress online from the comfort of his home located miles away.

Police found hundreds of videotapes and DVDs of naked women which were of all tenants in Daley’s apartments.

Daley was definitely only into women, because apartments occupied by men were not rigged.

Daley obviously panicked because when he was caught, he had with him equipment he had removed from apartments, meaning he tried to cover his tracks.

Daley then told police that:
(i) he had spied on female tenants for 20 years.
(ii) he installed the cameras before the tenants moved in.
(iii) he taught himself how to install the cameras.
(iv) he followed technology trends: starting with VHS equipment, he graduated to digital recorders and remotely controllable and accessible cameras.

Daley is now being charged with more than 1,000 counts of criminal use of a communication facility and invasion of privacy.

Compounding his problem, the DA said the actual number of victims could be in the hundreds and hence more charges are likely.

End result is that Daley could be put behind bars for many many years.

Here’s CBS’ report, complete with videos of the apartment: