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Posted on the 12th March 2025 in PHTM News
LIVERPOOL CABBIE JAILED AFTER FILMING BOY IN CINEMA TOILET AND POSSESSING CHILD ABUSE IMAGES
A Liverpool taxi driver, Daniel Albertina, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after being caught filming a 16-year-old boy in a cinema toilet and subsequently found to be in possession of a disturbing collection of child abuse images and extreme pornography.
The 39-year-old’s “secret life” of depravity was exposed at Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday 11 March.
The court heard that the teenager, attending Odeon Switch Island, noticed a mobile phone being held under the cubicle wall while he was using the toilet.
“Following the incident, I didn't leave the house for a couple of weeks on my own,” the victim said in a statement read in court.
“I'm now concerned about using public toilets. It still knocks me sick knowing what this monster did to me. I feel like this was an invasion of privacy.”
Prosecutor Paul Becker detailed how Albertina, identified as a Delta taxi driver, was apprehended after the boy reported the incident to cinema staff.
A subsequent police investigation revealed a trove of incriminating evidence on his devices. This included 165 indecent images of children, videos of a teenage girl showering, and extreme pornographic images depicting bestiality.
Albertina admitted to “offences of voyeurism over six weeks on about six occasions” at the cinema, telling detectives he had “an attraction to young males and females.”
He pleaded guilty to two counts of voyeurism, four charges of possession of indecent images of children, nine offences of making indecent images, and four matters of possession of extreme pornographic images.
Judge Andrew Menary KC condemned Albertina’s “disgraceful, appalling catalogue of conduct,” stating: “This is outrageous conduct. It is not often that this court is shocked. Sadly, we have seen it all. But these are really bad images of their type.”
The judge added: "This was not the first time that you had done this. It is clear from what you said to the police that you had got into the habit, having used the toilet after dropping off a customer and realised that it was possible for you to go into the toilets and use your telephone to take a picture or record what was happening in the adjacent cubicle."
In addition to the prison sentence, Albertina received a five-year restraining order, a ten-year sexual harm prevention order, and will be required to register as a sex offender for ten years.
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