Locations
Vadel Ayre, North Roe, Shetland, ZE2
Description
Simon Austin, previously known as Simon Austin Hamilton, 43, now of Vadel Ayre, North Roe, Shetland, but previously of Sutton Avenue, Rustington, is due to appear on bail at Worthing Magistrates Court on Tuesday (July 30).
The 20 charges, authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) follow an extensive investigation over the past two and a half years by the Paedophile On-Line Investigation Team (POLIT) of Sussex Police.
Austin is charged with 12 offences of making indecent videos and images of children from the Internet between 2007 and 2009, with seven offences of outraging public decency by making indecent videos of women, filmed covertly on the London tube network in 2008 and 2009, and with one offence of refusing to disclose his computer password in May 2012.
At the times of all the alleged offences Austin was living in Rustington.
A police spokesman added that the allegedly indecent videos of children did not involve any youngsters from the area.