An online voyeur was jailed for four years in Cyprus for spying
on a teenage girl over a webcam in her bedroom that he switched on
remotely.
The 47-year-old was found guilty of installing Trojan Horse
software in the computer of a 17-year-old he met in an online
chatroom.
Prosecutors said he sent the girl malware as an email
attachment, which he used to switch on her webcam remotely.
The defendant then watched the girl without her knowledge over an
extended period of time.
She told her parents when he traced her mobile number and
started to harass her.
A district court in the capital Nicosia sentenced the man on
Monday after a trial held in camera to conceal the identity of the
girl, who was under the legal age consent of 18 when the case was
reported in 2005.
