Tim Keeble: Former Illawarra Mercury journalist admits filming up woman’s dress at supermarket
An Illawarra man has admitted to filming up a woman’s skirt on several occasions at a supermarket, after she busted him holding a phone between her legs.
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A former sports journalist has admitted to ‘upskirting’ a woman in a grocery store, telling police he filmed up her dress for his own “personal fetish”.
Tim Keeble, a former sports journalist at the Illawarra Mercury, pleaded guilty to a charge of film person’s private parts without consent at Wollongong Local Court on Tuesday, after the “brazen” and “calculated” incident.
Keeble, 51, was charged on September 7, after a woman caught him sticking an iPhone between her legs and filming up her dress at Woolworths in Figtree Grove on September 1.
In documents tendered to the court, it was revealed Keeble admitted to the act as soon as he was arrested, telling police he “was remorseful of his actions which he described as a personal fetish”.
According to the documents, the entire incident was captured on Woolworths CCTV cameras.
Keeble is seen entering aisle nine of the supermarket at 7.59pm, carrying a shopping basket while fiddling with something within the basket, which police said was “a recording device”.
He approached the victim holding the basket strategically between the victim’s legs. Court documents reveal he did so on three occasions before removing his phone from the basket.
He then approached the victim again, this time holding the device between her legs for several seconds.
Keeble repeated his actions before leaving, and quickly returning to the aisle, where he again bent down and held the phone between her legs, accidentally grazing the inside of her leg.
The victim turned around, while Keeble stuffed the phone into his pocket, telling the woman he was “trying to look for an item at the bottom shelf”.
He then fled the supermarket, with the woman telling staff who reviewed the CCTV footage.
Police were contacted and Keeble was arrested some days later and taken to Wollongong Police Station where he admitted to the offence.
The 51-year-old will return to court for sentencing in November.