PICTURES reveal the creepy moment a sleazy landlord checked a hidden camera he had placed inside his mum-of-two tenant's bathroom.
Former councillor , 51, pried on at least 28 women who lived at his home in Sowerby Bridge, , over a 14-year period.
The peeping Tom was , Heidi Marney, 32, who gathered the courage to lay bare his creepy activities after finding one of the cameras in her bathroom.
Terrifying stills shared by capture the moment the sex offender adjusted one of his sick recording devices at his rural farm house.
Holden had owned a local computer shop and worked as a , aside his councillor role, offering cheap rooms to vulnerable women who thought they could trust him.
But he abused this role, using hidden cameras in intimate areas of his rental , such as bathrooms and bedrooms, for a number of years.
The footage captured deeply private moments, including tenants showering, changing clothes, or engaging in intimate activities, such as being intimate with a partner.
When Heidi discovered one of the concealed cameras in the bathroom of her rented home, she immediately reported the incident to , prompting an investigation into Holden's activities.
Heidi, a therapist, was a newly-single mum when she saw Holden advertise for a lodger in December 2019.
Since he was a friend, and he was offering her and her baby daughter the opportunity to live rent-free, Heidi felt like it was an opportunity she couldn't refuse, she told MailOnline.
However, after sitting in a large bathtub in the property on her first night there, she began to feel like she was being watched.
Heidi says she saw a in the bathroom with a sensor and a red light attached to it, but a friend eventually panned this off as nothing out of the ordinary.
But as time went on, Holden's actions became creepier, with the landlord making unwanted sexual advances and strange comments towards the young mum.
After Holden tracked her travelling to for a date, Heidi began to realise Holden's unsettling behaviour could mean there were cameras in his home.
Speaking in a on , Peeping Tom: The Landlord and His Secret Cameras, after bravely waiving her anonymity, Heidi described the terrifying moment she discovered the hidden recording device in her bathroom.
She said she found it “strange” how there was an alarm sensor in the lavatory and so went to investigate it when she became suspicious there could be cameras in the property.
Heidi grabbed a knife from the kitchen and walked up to the bathroom holding a knife, as to not arouse suspicion to Holden, who was still in the property at the time.
Grabbing a step, and two paint tins, Heidi positioned herself up to the fitting, attempting to pry it open.
In a heart-stopping moment, the knife dropped, making a large “clanging” sound on the floor, potentially alerting Holden to her activity.
Terrified, Heidi quickly composed herself, jamming open the sensor before Holden noticed anything out of the ordinary, she says.
Once the casing was open, the tenant was left speechless as she discovered the words “camera” and “microphone” written inside.
After alerting police, searches were conducted of his other properties which revealed additional hidden linked to recording devices.
Holden had been systematically violating his tenants' privacy for years, using advanced equipment to capture footage without their knowledge.
In addition to secretly filming his tenants, Holden abused his position as the owner of a computer repair .
He conned his shop's customers by accessing private images and sensitive data from devices entrusted to him for repair.
Further demonstrating the pattern of exploitation, this misuse of trust added another layer of criminality to his depraved behaviour.
The creep was charged with multiple counts of voyeurism and computer misuse but failed to appear in in 2022 before fleeing to Cape Verde.
He remained on the run for 17 months before being extradited back to the UK in September 2023.
Heidi said: “When he fled the country to Cape Verde, he just wasn’t taking any responsibility whatsoever.
“I just thought how dare you? When it all happened I was heartbroken.
“I thought I’d ruined his life, ruined his reputation, how is he ever going to come back from this?”
Heidi explained she was ridden with guilt at first after exposing him, but then realised the sleazy landlord “did not care about me at all” and was “not remorseful”.
She continued: “People were saying to me ‘Heidi we can’t believe what you have done to Rob’.
“I was so stunned about how it was turned around on to me. I couldn’t believe nobody believed me.
“So when he fled the country I was determined to make his face known, I was going to do a on him and make his face known to the world.
“I believed that this sick individual would do this to other people.”
‘DEPRAVED AND SELFISH'
In January 2024, Holden eventually .
He was sentenced to six years and two months in .
Judge Sophie McKone described his actions as “depraved and selfish,” highlighting the severe emotional harm inflicted on his victims.
She added: “You hid behind a veil of respectability, having your own business and being a local government councillor.
“This was well-organised deception at its worst and you deceived people over many years.
“You breached their trust in the most gross way.
“They were entitled to think that these acts were private. You did this to get, in your own words, a cheap thrill.”
As part of his sentencing, Holden was required toand was issued a Sexual Harm Prevention Order prohibiting him from contact with his victims.
