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The woman, who did not wish to be identified, said she “felt sick” after finding the device hidden underneath the seat of a toilet she had just used<\/p>\n
A woman has said she felt “violated” after finding a live-streaming camera hidden inside a toilet she had been using while on a date at a restaurant.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old mother-of-one was on a date night with her partner at Thai restaurant Giggling Squid in St Martin’s Square, Leicester, between Christmas and new year when she made the discovery and alerted staff.<\/p>\n
Leicestershire Police was notified and carried out an investigation, but no arrests have yet been made by the force.<\/p>\n
The victim told the BBC: “It makes me feel sick – I’ve tried to disassociate myself from it but whoever has done that has won, they have that of me now.”<\/p>\n
The NHS worker had visited the restaurant on 30 December for a meal when, after eating, she needed to use the bathroom.<\/p>\n
But after using a toilet inside a cubicle, she realised there was a black camera – with kitchen roll wrapped around it – under the toilet seat with a black lens visible. The camera was later found to be connected to the internet.<\/p>\n
She said: “I turned around and I looked down and I saw this black round dot – it was a bit out of place because the toilet’s white.<\/p>\n
“It was just there, a small camera, some wires coming off of it, and then a battery pack with kitchen roll over it, and my stomach just sank.<\/p>\n
“The thought of someone watching, especially in such a private area, scared me. It’s a really uncomfortable thing to think about, that somebody’s got that now.<\/p>\n
“There must have been so many people visiting that toilet.”<\/p>\n
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The victim had been on a date night when she found the device under the toilet seat at the Giggling Squid restaurant<\/p>\n
Leicestershire Police said it was notified the following day about the webcam at the restaurant chain.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson said: “Officers attended and the device was recovered for examination.<\/p>\n
“Further inquiries were carried out regarding CCTV in the restaurant and staff were spoken to in order to try and identify the person responsible.<\/p>\n
“Advice has also been given to staff about remaining vigilant.”<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Giggling Restaurants, the company that runs the restaurant, said a customer had reported a “suspicious object” to staff on the night it was found.<\/p>\n
They said: “Our staff did the right thing and informed police right away, who now have the item in their possession.<\/p>\n
“We are co-operating fully with their inquiries.”<\/p>\n
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The restaurant said it was “co-operating fully” with the police investigation<\/p>\n
The victim added she hoped sharing her experience would save other people from being targeted.<\/p>\n
“I’m trying to get people to think when they go in public situations, look everywhere, even in places that we wouldn’t even think would be unsafe,” she said.<\/p>\n
“When I’ve spoken to people about it, it’s not something that anybody’s ever thought about, nobody looks at under the toilet seats or has a little scan before they use the toilet.<\/p>\n
“If this helps somebody spot it before it can escalate, then great.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supplied The woman, who did not wish to be identified, said she “felt sick” after finding the device…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-389931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}