A Dunfermline teenager who was caught peeking over a changing room cubicle at a naked woman has been put on the sex offenders register.
The 24-year-old was shocked to see Sean Adam peering down on her after she took off her swimming costume.
The woman was naked as the 18-year-old peeked over from the next cubicle.
He apologised after the woman shouted “What are you doing?” and called him a creep.
Terrified Adam then remained in the locked cubicle after the woman’s partner found out what had happened and kicked his door shouting “perv”.
Adam later asked to be allowed to leave by a back door because he was too scared to go out by the main exit.
The incident happened after the couple had gone with their children to the pool at Carnegie Leisure Centre in Dunfermline.
Adam appeared for sentencing for voyeurism at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.
He was previously found guilty of a charge that on May 5 last year at Carnegie Swimming Pool, Pilmuir Street, he observed a woman by peering into a changing cubicle occupied by her when she was in a state of undress.
Adam, from Dunfermline, claimed he had stood on a bench in the cubicle to “drip-dry” after leaving his towel in the shower area.
However, the sheriff did not believe his story and put Adam on the sex offenders register.
The victim told the court she had left the pool first to get changed and was then going to help her children after their swim.
She had removed her swimsuit and was naked when she looked up and saw eyes peering down on her.
She put her clothes on and left the cubicle to tell her partner and a member of staff and then police.
Graham Smith, 35, was duty manager at the pool on the day of the incident and asked Adam to accompany him to his office to speak about what had happened.
“He kept saying ‘I’m sorry’ before I’d even said what the allegation was,” said Mr Smith.
At the trial, Sheriff Charles MacNair told Adam he did not believe his version of events and found him guilty.
After reading a social work report, Sheriff MacNair imposed a community payback order with two years of supervision and Adam will be on the sex offenders register for the same period.