A SCHOOLBOY who used his mobile phone to film other boys changing is to have his name removed from the police sex offender register.

District judge Gwyn Jones said the requirement for him to register for two-and-a-half years, imposed at the sentencing hearing last month, should not have been made.

A police application for a sexual prevention order to be considered had previously been adjourned but the application was not pursued at North East Wales Magistrates Court.

Last month the boy, aged 15 from the Mold area, was placed on a 12 month referral order with the youth justice service.

The Mold court heard how the victim who was naked was surprised to see a mobile phone appear under a cubicle wall. He heard it clicking and he covered himself up with a towel.

When it happened again, he tried to stamp on the phone with his foot.

A complaint was made and the youth, a boy aged 14 at the time, was identified from CCTV as someone who entered the changing rooms at the time.

Police were informed, the boy's phone was examined and seven such photographs taken at cubicles were discovered on it.

It turned out that a similar complaint had been made previously but it had been dealt with internally by the school.

The youth, who had never been in any trouble before, admitted seven charges of voyeurism between November 2017 and March last year.

He also admitted making by downloading 17 category B indecent images and 76 category C images from the Internet, together with possessing 16

prohibited images of children.