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A TWISTED stalker has been filming women around the capital and then posting footage on the internet.

YouTube has now been forced to close the account of one dodgy user following the alert.

The unknown culprit was filming the women from behind on places such as Grafton Street.

The camera generally focused on the unsuspecting women's behinds, but on occasion it caught their face, leaving them identifiable.

Video website operator YouTube has now removed the footage, but the case has raised concerns for women.

Woman's Aid director Margaret Martin said it was a "very worrying development".

She said that aid group has been made aware "of this disturbing practice where women are being filmed, unbeknownst to them, and sexually objectified online".

There were 14 videos in all ranging in length from just 17 seconds long to four minutes and 27 seconds.

They were all given distasteful titles and were for a time openly viewable by any internet user. In most cases, it appeared that the women were being followed from a close distance but were totally unaware that somebody was filming them.

A spokesperson for YouTube said that it had moved quickly to remove the offending videos.

"Sadly, as with any form of communication, there is a tiny minority of people who try to break the rules," said the spokesperson.


In one of the longer clips, the secret voyeur follows a young woman for the entire length of Dublin's busiest shopping street.

Initially the footage shows her from behind but the camera also moves in front showing her face.

The anonymous web poster also films a young woman as she is sitting in Connolly Station.

Another clip showed a young mother in a supermarket with her child.

However gardai say that they would have to carry out a full investigation before taking any action.

I saw some of these videos when the story broke, and before Youtube deleted the account. He was some perv alright.

Ya'd have to wonder if the guards can do anything. Like what law exactly is he breaking?

really? what were the videos like? peeping in windows at naked girls or what? or just generally being creepy?!

nah he was just walkin down Grafton St and walkin around town behind some girls with his camera phone in his hand down by his waist, so the camera was right on their arses, and he was walkin right behind them just videoing the girls. They were wearing jeans and stuff like. it was hardly peeping in their windows. literally just walking behind the girls around town, or there was ones just sittin down somewhere and he was filming them coz they were hot!

That's still pervy though!! Reminds me of last weekend when this group of guys kept trying to take pics of me and my friends and pics of them pointing at us in the background...freaks!!!