Victims 'grossly failed' by bail of voyeur to flat above playground
London's Victims' Commissioner says victims and their families were "grossly failed" after a convicted voyeur who used AI to create nude images of children was bailed to a flat overlooking a playground.
Zafer Dogan, 32, of Enfield, north London, was jailed on Thursday for two years and four months after being convicted of taking thousands of pictures of women and girls and using AI technology to turn them into nude images.
Despite protests from police and prosecutors, Dogan had previously been bailed back to his flat in Enfield, which overlooked a children’s playground — forcing a victim’s family to move into temporary accommodation.
London’s Victims’ Commissioner Andrea Simon told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Friday that victims and their families were “grossly failed” by the bail decision, adding that police and prosecutors had opposed bail on multiple occasions.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley took the unusual step of publicly criticising the justice system after the sentencing, arguing that pressure to reduce the remand population was leading to dangerous offenders being granted bail despite strong opposition from police and prosecutors.
The Times reported that Dogan captured the images over two years, taking scores of them from his bedroom window backing onto a play area. Police found 1,529 indecent images of children on his phone, including 635 Category A images. He admitted eight offences, including five counts of making an indecent photograph of a child, after being granted conditional bail to his home address. A planned sentencing hearing on 11 September was adjourned.
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