{"id":787472,"date":"2026-09-30T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787472\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:42:10","slug":"north-wales-police-detective-pleads-guilty-to-upskirting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787472\/","title":{"rendered":"North Wales Police detective pleads guilty to ‘upskirting’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former detective has admitted taking pictures beneath the clothing of a child without consent – also known as “upskirting”.<\/p>\n

Lee Harshey-Jones, 45, pleaded guilty to one charge of voyeurism and one of perverting the course of justice by applying a factory reset to his mobile phone to conceal evidence on 11 June 2026, in Colwyn Bay, Conwy county.<\/p>\n

He was a detective constable and lead investigator in the case of two-year-old Ethan Ives-Griffiths<\/a>, whose grandparents were jailed for murder last year, and has given evidence in other high-profile murder trials in north Wales.<\/p>\n

Harshey-Jones was given conditional bail following a hearing at Chester Crown Court, and will be sentenced on 19 November.<\/p>\n

He was suspended by North Wales Police after his arrest, and has since resigned from the force.<\/p>\n

Harshey-Jones also pleaded guilty to a charge of corrupt or improper exercise of his police powers and privileges by looking up his own incident on the computer log.<\/p>\n

Ryan Donoghue, defending, asked for a pre-sentence report for his client, who he said was of previous good character.<\/p>\n

He was told by Recorder Mark Ford KC he must sign the sex offenders register.<\/p>\n

The recorder added: “The fact that I have adjourned the case for a pre-sentence report should not be taken by you as any indication to you as to what sentence will be passed on these serious counts.”<\/p>\n

Operating equipment beneath clothing without consent is an offence under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.<\/p>\n

North Wales Police said the former officer had resigned from the force.<\/p>\n

The force added that, as criminal proceedings and misconduct protocols remained active, it was unable to provide comment at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former detective has admitted taking pictures beneath the clothing of a child without consent – also known…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-787472","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\/787472","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=787472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}