© Licensed to London News Pictures; 10/09/2020; Bristol, UK. Former Gloucester City Councillor LEE HAWTHORNE aged 40 arrives at Bristol Magistrates Court. He is charged with upskirting in Gloucester's TK Maxx branch, Northgate Street, on June 27 2019. The former former Gloucester City Councillor for Quedgeley Fieldcourt resigned as a Gloucester city councillor in April. The criminal offence of 'upskirting' was created under the Voyeurism Act as a new offence and came into force in England and Wales in April 2019, after a campaign by a woman targeted at a music festival. Offenders now face up to two years in jail, with the most serious put on the sex offenders' register. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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