A PERVERT has admitted spying on a woman in swimming pool changing rooms.

King Alfred Leisure Centre staff confronted Tom Duhigg and detained him on October 12.

He was arrested by police officers on suspicion of voyeurism and operating equipment to observe others after he was accused of peering over cubicles, taking pictures and recording videos on his phone while they were changing after using the swimming pool at the centre in Hove.

The unemployed 31-year-old, of Hill Side, Newhaven, was released on bail and then charged.

He appeared at Brighton Magistrates’ Court on Monday and pleaded guilty to observing a person doing a private act for the “purpose of obtaining sexual gratification” by observing another person in private and “knowing that the person did not consent to being observed for your sexual gratification”.

The charge refers to one victim. In November Sussex Police confirmed they had identified one woman but more footage found on the phone suggested a second had also been watched.

The force issued an appeal to speak to a woman who was changing between 7.30pm and 8pm after swimming at the centre that day.

The images were not clear enough for officers to be able to identify the potential second victim and it is thought she may not have realised she was being watched.

But at one point she is reported to have shouted out ‘Who’s there?’, disturbing a man who left the neighbouring cubicle, a police spokesman said.

At the time, PC Jon Mills invited the woman to come forward to discuss the incident.

Duhigg was released on bail until January 27 when he will be sentenced.

The conviction follows two other voyeurism court cases last year when men were caught hiding cameras to secretly film women.

Theatre director Tarran Collins, 24, of Shakespeare Road, Worthing, was jailed in March after he hid a video camera in a woman’s bedroom so he could spy on her getting undressed.

Terence Munro, 58, of Goodwood Way, Brighton, was also sent to prison in December for secretly filming a woman in the shower without her knowledge and adapting her computer so he could access it from his own.