Instead, read with horror the remarks of the judge:
Deputy District Judge Alan Fowler said the CCTV cameras, which had been pointed into the couple's back garden by the four neighbours, did invade their privacy but they were entitled to do this by law as they were detecting a crime.
Is behaving "very odd" a crime? Is simulating sex on your own property a crime? Vulgar, of course, but a crime? Every television executive in Britain should be arrested, they broadcast far worse.
But the coup de grace...you can set up CCTV cameras to monitor the private property of your neighbours if you are 'detecting a crime'. Of course, as Labour have introduced about one million new laws, there's a fair bet that you will catch someone doing something.
So, incredibly, it is now legal and permissible to film the private lives of your neighbours. The State is happy as it gets a cadre of willing spies and informants, and it is only a short step from private monitoring to State monitoring.
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I used to have a neighbour that had very sensitive movement tripped security lights. All well and good until I had 15,000 candle power beaming into my bedroom at night.
By a curious coincidence, some helpful person shot the lights out with an air rifle. There need to be limits to anything that affects the enjoyment of your property.
"..the behaviour of Miss French and Mr Jarman, which they cannot deny because there is visible evidence.."
Hmmm, the fact that there was only 'visible evidence' because CCTV had been pointed into their own property might help our tourist industry though.
Think about it: it must mean that we can now stop prosecuting all those holiday companies that promise a 'sea view' and then say 'well, there is if you stand on that chair and tilt your head out of the window and look through the telescope nailed to the outside wall at a 90 degree angle'.
See, there's a silver lining to every cloud...
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