A judge lifted an order forcing a sex offender to wear a fluorescent jacket at night after a court heard that the ruling had a devastating effect on the man.
Last month Judge Peter Dedman told Stephen Cooper, 24, of South Ockendon, Essex, to wear the coat when out for the "protection of women".
But critics said the order was like making Cooper wear a sign saying sex offender and complained that it would not make women safer.
Yvette Kresner, for Cooper, today told Chelmsford Crown Court that the jacket order had been devastating for her client, who had lost his job driving a van.
Cooper has admitted voyeurism by peeping through a curtain crack from a garden. He is due to be sentenced on May 11.
The judge made the jacket order after freeing Cooper on bail pending sentence.
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