Richard Snook leaves the Napier District Court after being sentenced to four months' home detention for making intimate visual recordings. Photo / APN
A man who used a video camera to secretly film a young girl and up the skirts of women has been sentenced to home detention at a property only a few hundred metres from a Hastings primary school.
Richard John Snook, 42, was sentenced at the Napier District Court on
Tuesday to four months' home detention, after pleading guilty in May to four charges of making an intimate visual recording. One person filmed was a girl aged about 10 and naked from the waist down, who he had covertly filmed near the Tom Parker fountain in Napier. The camera had also been used to film under women's skirts and dresses around shops on Emerson St.
The home detention address Snook was sentenced to is only a few hundred metres from Raureka School on Gordon Rd, Hastings.
When contacted by Hawke's Bay Today, principal Greg Riceman said he was not aware of Snook's proximity to the school.
"It is a concern to us. We'd like to know from the courts, the police, whoever, that this person is around the area so we can inform the community that our kids need to be kept safe. I think everyone would like to be informed so we can try and keep our children safe.''
