A pedophile with a disturbing criminal history has been jailed for 25 months after being caught secretly filming women in a female restroom at the Millburngate shopping centre in Durham city. Kurtis Mawson first attempted to claim he identified as a woman in order to avoid arrest.

Mawson was first arrested the morning of March 5, 2022, after female patrons reported him to police for attempting to take covert video and photos of women using a cubicle by standing on a toilet and leaning over the top of the partition. There were young girls in the washroom who were quickly ushered out by women who had been in the bathroom and spotted what Mawson was up to.