DISTURBING NIGHTLIFE TREND AS VOYEURISM OFFENCES SOAR

VOYEURISM offences have soared in England and Wales over the last decade amid concern over a disturbing trend in "nightlife videos" online.

- By RICHARD AULT

Clips have increasingly appeared online showing women being secretly filmed on nights out. These videos have grown in popularity in recent years, with one channel, set up just four months ago, receiving over 300 million views.

The videos, which film unsuspecting women, who are often intoxicated or deliberately recorded in revealing outfits without their permission, are still being posted to the likes of YouTube.

Some have received over 40 million views in a matter of months and attracted sickening misogynistic comments.

A special report by the Manchester Evening News recently highlighted the disturbing trend in Manchester city centre.

Greater Manchester Police told the M.E.N that while it is not illegal to film people in public without their consent, "women and girls should feel safe on a night out".