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UK: Paedophile IT technician jailed after installing software onto work computers to spy on colleagues

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Dissent

Rebecca Speare-Cole reports:

An IT technician who installed software onto computers at work to spy on his colleagues and was found with indecent images of children has been jailed.

Andrew Cakebread, 36, stole 6,803 videos from his coworkers and their families, including 79 taken through hacked webcams.

He also recorded footage inside his company’s staff toilets.

Read more on Yahoo!. The Daily Mail has a lot of additional details, including the fact that he was a school IT technician.


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