Photographers are perverts - official

Not only are Photographers seen as terrorists, now apparently

"A police officer has destroyed a journalist's images of people sledging arguing that it represented an act of voyeurism."

Yes it seems that

"According to the St-Albans local newspaper, The Review, reporter Alex Lewis took several photos on his mobile phone in Stanborugh Park on 03 February when he was threatened by a man who apparently thought he was photographing his children for sexual purposes.

The reporter called the police, however, an officer told him that his phone would be confiscated as evidence for a charge of 'voyeurism' unless he agreed to delete the images. The Sexual Offences Act 2003 introduced the offence of voyeurism.

'The act defines a "private act", in the context of this offence, as an act carried out in a place which, in the circumstances, would reasonably be expected to provide privacy, and where the victim’s genitals, buttocks or breasts are exposed or covered only in underwear; or the victim is using a lavatory; or the person is doing a sexual act that is not of a kind ordinarily done in public'.

The Review has asked Hertfordshire Constabulary how photographs of fully clothed people in a public park are covered by the legislation. No response has been given.
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So photographers can be treated as terrorists if they take a photo of a public building or a policeman and as a pervert if they take a photo of a fully clothed child. 21st century Britain, what a place to live.