Peeping Tom sports coach fired from childcare

A sports coach who admitted to using a spy camera to watch women in their changing rooms has been fired from the childcare centre where he worked and has also been suspended from coaching volleyball. The 43-year-old peeping Tom cannot be named by court order, to prevent the identification of his victims, whose privacy was severely breached, the Times of Malta has learnt. Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit handed the man a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and also ordered that he undergo psychiatric treatment to treat his addiction. A lawyer representing the childcare centre where the man used to work told the Times of Malta that it first suspended and later, upon his conviction, sacked the man from his job. Even the Malta Volleyball Association took action immediately and suspended him from all coaching duties. Association president Jesmond Saliba said when contacted yesterday: “The person was immediately suspended from any activity connected to the sport, pending the final decision of statutory disciplinary proceedings.” It emerged in court that the man had installed a small spy camera in his team’s changing rooms and tried to see more skin by persuading some...