A mobile phone voyeur has been given a final chance to receive treatment for his bizarre obsession after a Judge heard he lost contact with the probation service after being banned from Torbay.
Kristoffer Roberts was allowed to continue doing unpaid work despite failing to keep four appointments with supervising officers.
He will now have a chance to complete a sex offenders' course designed to control his urge to take pictures of women in shops.
Roberts, aged 20, escaped with a suspended sentence last year after he admitted taking 660 secret photos of unsuspecting women.
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 received 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, added an extra 10 hours of unpaid work but allowed his suspended sentence to continue after being told he is about to start the sex offenders' course.
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.
Mr Paul Dentith, defending, said Roberts' problems arose because of a domestic incident which resulted in a restraining order being made against him.
It meant he was banned from entering Torbay, which is where he was due to attend meetings with supervising officers and do his community work.
Mr Dentith said Roberts has resumed contact with the probation service and gone to meeting which have been arranged elsewhere. He said he needs to go on the sex offenders' programme and is keen to do so.
In the original case Roberts, 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.
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