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Oct 26, 2022
Birmingham Man Caught Planting Listening Bugs in Neighbours House
Hidden cameras captured the moment a 'creepy stalker' tried to remove secret listening devices he had planted in his neighbour's Birmingham home.Â
William Nolan, 59, and his wife were trusted with a key to neighbour Debbie Wearing-Jones' house in Erdington so they could feed her two cats while she was away.
Ms Wearing-Jones, a 64-year-old widow, was horrified when she found a voice recorder taped under her coffee table and then another behind the headboard in her bedroom.
She then set up covert webcams to catch the rogue who came to collect the recording kit. She also carefully hoovered her carpet in a certain direction to capture the snooper's footprints.
When the grandmother-of-one watched back the footage she caught Nolan in her home, retrieving the spyware recorders, and contacted police.
Former security guard Nolan admitted to stalking without fear, alarm or distress and was jailed for 15 weeks at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on May 25, 2020.
The judge has described the case as one of the most serious 'stalking' offences he had ever seen.