Father branded a pervert for photographing his own children in public park

A father was accused of being a pervert and stopped from taking photographs at a city show after attempting to take pictures of his own children on a fairground ride.

Gary Crutchley was taking pictures of his sons Cory, seven, and Miles, five, on an inflatable slide when staff questioned him and told him to stop.

When Mr Crutchely, a father of three, insisted he only wanted to photograph his own children, another parent challenged him, saying he could be putting the pictures up on the internet.


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Mr Crutchely, 39, of Reedswood, Walsall, sought a second opinion from police at the Wolverhampton City Show, but was told "that's the way society is these days", though they admitted taking the pictures was allowed.

Mr Crutchley said: "What is the world coming to when anybody seen with a camera is assumed to be doing things that they should not?

"This parental paranoia is getting completely out of hand. I was so shocked."