Jogger ‘egregiously violated’ privacy of women he indecently filmed through bedroom windows, judge says

An Adelaide man who “violated” women for his own sexual gratification by secretly indecently filming them through their windows, and then photographing their mail so he could put names to his victims, has been spared jail.

Luke Spencer Tregloan, 46, pleaded guilty to indecently filming seven women in Adelaide’s inner south between 2017 and 2019.

The Highgate father-of-two also pleaded guilty to possessing child abuse material and using a carriage service to access child abuse material.

South Australia’s District Court heard Tregloan would go for a jog at night with his dog, and that, if he saw a light on and women undressed, he would film them so he could look at the footage later.

Tregloan often entered onto private property to film through his victims’ bedroom and bathroom windows.

The court heard he also took photos of their mail so he “could put a name to a face”.

“If you were jogging past again you would know that was where a person you had filmed lived,” Judge Joana Fuller told Tregloan during sentencing.

“You said that because you were the only person who knew about the footage, then you didn’t consider your actions had any negative affect on your victims.”

Several of Tregloan’s victims previously told the court they felt “violated” and had lost their sense of safety and security in their own home.

Some victims could not be identified.

Judge Fuller said Tregloan’s offending began after the educational children’s app he developed failed to become a success and he felt stressed.

“How you could have thought that no harm was being done because no-one would ever know what you had been doing is difficult to understand.

“Although the genesis of the offending was opportunistic, thereafter you had indecently filmed victims one and two, I find that you actively sought out opportunities to film other victims.”

Tregloan ‘not a paedophile’, judge says

Judge Fuller said Tregloan was “not a paedophile” and that his offending for the child abuse crimes was at the lower end of seriousness.

She accepted he was remorseful and ashamed, had stopped his offending on his own accord and had actively sought out treatment.

Judge Fuller sentenced Tregloan to a total of three years and three months on home detention with his parents.

He will be eligible for parole in November 2023.