4 cleared of using police helicopter to film nude sunbathers
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A British jury has cleared two police officers and two pilots of misusing a police helicopter to film people sunbathing naked and having sex.
Prosecutors say a South Yorkshire Police helicopter equipped with a powerful camera was used to film people in backyards and at a campsite in a "gross violation" of the victims' privacy.
Another officer, Constable Adrian Pogmore, earlier pleaded guilty to making the recordings.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}His four colleagues testified that they didn't know what Pogmore was up to. Jurors at Sheffield Crown Court in northern England believed them, delivering not-guilty verdicts on Friday.
In one case, a couple was filmed having sex on their patio, with their knowledge. Prosecutors said Pogmore was "a swinging and sex-obsessed air observer" who knew the couple through the swingers' scene.