Train driver who upskirted female passenger avoids jail sentence

Barone took photographs of the ‘sleeping and vulnerable’ passenger throughout the 45-minute journey while dressed in his work uniform. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA

A Thameslink train driver who took photos up a woman’s skirt while she was asleep on a train has avoided jail, despite being found guilty of voyeurism.

The driver, Paolo Barone, was on his way home from a shift in September 2022 when he saw that the woman, 51, had fallen asleep on a train travelling from London Blackfriars to St Albans in Hertfordshire.