Source : Perth Now news
A woman who randomly caught an alleged peeping Tom peering into her young neighbour’s bedroom window said it was “disturbing”.
Demi Irwin noticed a hooded man spying on the young teen, who was in her room playing computer games about 9pm last Wednesday.
Ms Irwin told A Current Affair it was pitch black when she came out of her bedroom and noticed a light coming through her young neighbour’s window and randomly looked down.
“I saw a hoodie and I was looking, and I was like, ‘what is that?’ She’s innocently on her computer being a kid, and to think of her looking up at him standing there … it was really quite disturbing,” she said.
Ms Irwin called out to her partner Chad Hillier for help and the pair started filming the alleged peeping Tom.
“I was starkers, so I grabbed some shorts, grabbed this torch, which was super bright,” Mr Hillier said.
“I cracked this door open, and it’s loud, and that’s when Demi said to me, and you’ll hear it on the video, she said, ‘He’s moving, baby he’s moving’.
“I basically sprinted straight up the door, straight at this fence here, sent myself over, shined this down, thinking that he’d already started moving, but I seen that he was hiding behind the airconditioner unit.”
Mr Hillier said the alleged peeping Tom jumped the fence into his yard and tried to escape through a gate, but he tripped over, enabling the heroic neighbour to pin him down until police arrived, while Ms Irwin alerted her neighbours.
“When I saw her out the front after it happened, she looked like she’d seen a ghost, as you would, very rattled,” Mr Hillier said.
“As the police were dragging him out the front, I don’t think I saw her blink, she just had eyes on him the whole time.”
The young teen said she was still shaken up by the incident.
“It’s terrifying, it makes me so angry, but just absolutely sick that you know he was there and I had no idea,” the mum said.
“It just boggles my mind, what was he even doing there in the first place? It’s an effort to get there.”
Police arrested Karl McInnes, 30, at the Meridan Plains home.
He was charged with two counts of trespass and one count of observations in breach of privacy.
He is due to face the Caloundra Magistrates Court on 30 July.
