A man tried to film a child removing their swimwear in a cubical at a Dundee swimming pool.
Lee Coull, 26, held his mobile phone over the top of a cubical at Olympia Leisure Centre (pictured) and tried to video or photograph the teenager as they changed after swimming, Dundee Sheriff Court was told.
The court heard the frightened child shouted out and tried to push the phone away, but it re-emerged seconds later in the same place.
Fiscal depute Alex Piper told the court that the incident took place at around 4pm on Tuesday, shortly after the victim and their friend had been swimming in the pool.
The fiscal said: “The friends were in separate cubicles next to each other and were talking to each other as they changed. The complainer’s friend passed a bottle of juice to them under the bottom of the cubicle.
“The complainer bent down to pick it up, and at that point they became aware of a male in the cubicle opposite.
“A few minutes later the child looked up and saw a black mobile phone being held from the opposite cubicle, at the top of their cubicle, looking down at them.
“They shouted, ‘Go away,’ and at the same time they tried to hit the phone away.
“The phone disappeared, only to appear at the same area a few seconds later.”
The complainer became upset and, with the friend, they walked round to the next row of cubicles to see if they could see anyone.
The fiscal continued: “The friends noticed that one of the cubicles was still locked and the rest were all vacant.
“They informed staff and police were contacted.”
Coull, of Alloway Terrace, admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner which was likely to cause a reasonable person fear or alarm, by placing his mobile phone over the top of a swimming changing cubicle in an attempt to take a video or photograph of a minor, at Olympia Leisure Centre, on April 14.
Sentence was deferred until May 13 for reports.
Coull was given bail with an added special condition banning him from entering the Olympia.
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