A HOLIDAY camp ‘Peeping Tom’ has escaped further punishment after he moved from Devon to Liverpool without telling police of his new address.

William Kelly was put on the sex offenders’ register in 2018 when he admitted spying on women from a loft space at a holiday park in Dawlish. It meant he was required to tell police about his movements. 

He failed to do so in December last year when he travelled from his home in Exeter to look after his sick mother at her home in Liverpool.

Kelly went off radar for several days before being arrested when he went to a police station in Merseyside to report his new location.

He was put on the register for five years by Newton Abbot Magistrates after he was caught naked in a loft space above the female showers at a holiday camp at Dawlish while filming naked women with a mobile phone.

Kelly, aged 64. now of Melling Way, Kirkby, and previously of Exwick Road, Exeter, admitted failing to comply with the register and was conditionally discharged for six months by Judge David Evans at Exeter Crown Court.

He said he was making the order in the light of all the mitigating circumstances and guidelines which make clear the breach fell into the least serious category.

Mr Ian Graham, prosecuting, said Kelly had gone ‘off radar’ in December before presenting himself at a police station in Liverpool to register his new address.

He told officers he had been confused about the details of his notification requirements.

Mr Rhys Jenkins, defending, said: ‘He is now a carer for his mother and has moved to Liverpool to look after her. He will be there for quite some time.

‘He heard his mother was ill shortly before the Christmas period. He told probation he was going to Liverpool but did not tell the police.

‘He himself was admitted to hospital with pneumonia on December 15 and went to Liverpool as soon as he was discharged. His mother is registered blind and may have dementia. He described her as speaking in riddles.’