‘Every time I took a shower I thought: is he watching me?’ – the terrifying rise of secret cameras

theguardian.comPublished: 5/27/2025

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The first time Heidi Marney took a bath in her new, temporary home, she felt she was being watched. I couldn’t praise him enough.”View image in fullscreen ‘Knowing that he had been watching me felt awful – I felt shameful, I felt disgusting’ – Marney. In fact, it later emerged that Holden had been filming women through hidden cameras for almost 15 years, creating an extensive digital library neatly organised under their names. He had used hidden cameras to film women (some of them his customers) in their bedrooms, bathrooms and pub toilets for over a decade. “Knowing that he had been watching me felt awful – I felt shameful, I felt disgusting,” she says.