Voyeur landlord banned from working in financial services industry

Mark Horsey, a landlord who has been convicted of voyeurism, has now been banned from continuing to work in the financial services industry.

The ban has been announced by the Financial Conduct Authority which says: “The FCA expects high standards of character, probity and fitness and properness from those who operate in the financial services industry and will take action to ensure these standards are maintained.”

Horsey was the sole director and shareholder of an authorised financial advice firm. 

Back in September 2018 he was convicted of voyeurism under the Sexual Offences Act 2003. 

According to the FCA announcement: “Horsey had surreptitiously observed and video recorded his tenant having a shower without their consent. He committed the offence whilst he was an approved person.  Horsey was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment suspended for 18 months, required to complete 100 hours of unpaid work and 25 days of rehabilitation activity, and required to sign the sex offenders register.”

Media reports at the time of his court case in Guildford stated that he advertised only for female tenants and issued them with instructions, posted on the bathroom wall, about how to shower. 

The Surrey Live website, reporting on the court case at the time, said: “He angled mirrors in the bathroom to give him a better view of the tenant washing and would stand on a ladder in his office to film through a window above the door, into the bathroom.”

The location of his office in his semi-detached house gave him line of sight to the bathroom through the skylight of one door, inadequately covered by an ill-fitting blind. 

A victim statement read out in court at the time from an unnamed victim of Horsey said: "It makes me feel like I have done something wrong, I know I should not feel like that. This is a horrible thing that has happened, I had a significant gut feeling that something was unsettling with his nature.”

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