Anthony Durkan was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 28 October 2026 after admitting 26 voyeurism offences, following an investigation that began with reports from two women in Islington.
A Sexual Harm Prevention Order was imposed alongside the custodial sentence. The investigation remains active after sentencing, with officers still working to establish how many different women appear in material recovered from Durkan’s devices.
Reports and camera evidence
The case began when two women separately reported someone filming through the windows of their Islington homes during the early hours of the morning. The incidents took place in January and March 2026, and both were captured on cameras.
In January, a neighbour alerted one resident after seeing a person approach the property and hold a mobile phone up to the windows. Doorbell-camera footage recorded the incident, providing evidence for investigators to review alongside the resident’s report.
In March, another woman saw a person recording through her window and confronted him. He fled, but the episode was captured on a security camera. Her report became the second of the two incidents examined by investigators.
Officers reviewing the reports identified similarities in the clothing, the early-hours timing and the use of a mobile phone. They also noted that the two locations were close to one another.
Targeted patrols were increased in response. On the first night of that activity, 25 March 2026, an unmarked police car and a plain-clothed officer observed conduct described as matching the earlier pattern. Durkan was arrested outside a property.
A mobile phone was seized at the arrest. A subsequent search of his home recovered five additional mobile devices and a small camera, which were taken for examination as part of the investigation.
Examination of the seized devices uncovered a hidden gallery containing hundreds of images and videos of women who appeared not to know they had been recorded.
Guilty pleas and continuing investigation
The examination of the devices, together with reviews of historic unsolved reports, linked Durkan to further voyeurism offences dating from January 2020 through March 2026. The investigation therefore extended beyond the two reports that had prompted the targeted patrols.
Durkan pleaded guilty to seven voyeurism charges at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on 26 March 2026, the day after his arrest.
He returned to the same court on 21 July 2026 and pleaded guilty to 19 further voyeurism charges. Those admissions brought the total to 26 offences, for which he was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court in October.
The later evidence count was 99 images and 162 videos. Those figures describe the recordings recovered, not the number of victims. The number of different women represented in that material remains the subject of the continuing investigation.
The two women who made the initial reports, along with one additional victim identified through analysis of the devices, were receiving support from specially trained officers when the sentence was announced.
The custodial sentence and guilty pleas have not brought the identification work to an end. Officers are continuing to establish who appears in the recovered material and how many different women were recorded.
The active appeal covers people in Islington and north London who may have noticed unusual activity around their homes between January 2020 and March 2026. It is particularly concerned with activity late at night or in the early morning, reflecting the timing of the two reports that led to the investigation.
