Saskatoon man admits to secretly filming 25 women while on probation for similar offences

Kyle Hameluck developed a system during a year of peering into women'sbedroom windows a system honed over at least 37 separate voyeurism incidents.

"Mr. Hameluck hidoutside the windows of typically young women in Saskatoon,in the area of his home, looking into their bathrooms or to their bedrooms, waiting until they were nude, and taking pictures or video of them with his phone," prosecutor Evan Thompson said at Hameluck's sentencing this week at provincial court in Saskatoon.

Thompson described 32-year-oldHameluck's methods.Hameluck prowled the area around the female residence buildings at Aird Street and Cumberland Avenue. He was seen looking into windows and described as lurking around the ground floor of the buildings.

"The videos are, typically speaking, taken from just outside windows of residences, often through narrow cracks or viewing angles into the home. There's heavy breathing on the video," Thompson said.

"Some of them last for several minutes, and some of them are, again in sequence, indicating multiple videos were taken at the same address."

Hameluck made the surreptitious recordings between February2018 and March2019, predominantly in the Varsity View neighbourhood near the University of Saskatchewan.

Hameluck pleaded guilty to 37 voyeurism offences. In a joint submission, he was sentenced to 2.5 years. He will then wear an electronic monitoring bracelet for the first year and be under a 24-hour curfew. That will be followed by probation, and personal and sex offender counselling.

Thompson said Hameluck pleading guilty to the latest charges, sparing the victims from having to testify, carriedsome weight.

But Thompson also noted significant aggravating factors.

Hameluck was already on probation for similar offences and he breached probation in multiple ways, with multiple victims.

Court heard how Hameluck pleaded guilty April 5, 2017, to four counts of voyeurism, seven counts of committing an indecent act andadditional counts of prowling by night and mischief to property.