Pervert jailed for filming women in toilet cubicles at Leeds First Direct Arena during Rita Ora gig

Jordan Foster was locked up for two years and five months after a court heard how he also filmed a woman using a toilet at a Wakefield city centre pub and robbed another victim in a lavatory at Wakefield Westgate railway station.

Foster, of Ramsgate, Lofthouse, Leeds, told police that he was being paid to take secret explicit footage of women when he was arrested at the concert venue in Leeds city centre in May last year.

The 23-year-old pleaded guilty to five counts of voyeurism, robbery, threatening behaviour and criminal damage at Leeds Crown Court.

Glenn Parsons, prosecuting, said the first incident involved Foster robbing a woman in the female toilets of Wakefield Westgate station on the afternoon of April 28, 2019.

The woman had used a cubicle in the station toilets and when she tried to leave was confronted by a man.

Mr Parsons said the victim described how Foster had "wide eyes" and appeared to be on drugs.

The defendant pushed her back into the cubicle and put his hand over mouth to stop her screaming.

The victim gave him £10 from her purse before he left the toilet.

The woman reported him to a member of staff and Foster was seen heading away from the station.

Hours later, a woman went to the toilet in a Wakefield city centre pub and noticed another cubicle was locked.

She returned to the toilet about an hour later and it was still locked, arousing suspicion.

She then noticed a mirror placed at the gap between the two cubicles and could see a mobile phone reflection in the mirror.

Security staff were called but Foster fled and was spotted walking away from the premises.

A month later the pub victim saw a police appeal over the station robbery and recognised Foster from CCTV images of the incident.

Foster's workmate at the engineering firm where he worked also recognised him from the police appeal and confronted him.

Foster admitted being the suspect and was made to call the police himself.

He was arrested on May 9, 2019, and his mobile phone was seized.

The device contained footage from the city centre pub toilet.

Foster was arrested again a month later, on May 28, after being caught by a security officer in the female toilets at Leeds First Direct Arena.

Foster was challenged and said he was just using the toilet and denied he had a mobile phone on him.

Extra security officers were called and Foster had to be restrained. A mobile phone was found in his back pocket.

It showed that he had taken footage of women in the cubicle ranging from from 11 seconds to 35 seconds in length.

When the police arrived he continued to struggle and swear and claimed he was getting paid to take the videos.

No evidence was found that he had been paid for them.

Foster cut his finger in the struggle and used the blood to write abusive messages to the police on a cell bench at Elland Road police station - resulting in the criminal damage charge.

Foster was later picked out oat an identity procedure by the robbery victim.

Allan Armbrister, mitigating, accepted the charges were serious but said: "Before these matters he was of good character, was hard working and despite what seems to be social difficulties, he has held that job down for some time.

"He has had time to reflect on his behaviour."

Mr Armbrister added: "He was having relationship issues which was apparent from his desire for sexual gratification, however unfortunate or inappropriate, culminating in what was the most serious offence of robbery."

Sentencing, Judge Simon Batiste said: "In my judgement, only an immediate custodial sentence can possibly be justified."

Foster was also made the subject of ten-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).

The order prohibits him from entering any female public toilets.