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Police have praised two Otago students for their quick actions in apprehending a man lurking around their community. Critic understands that the 49 year old was caught masturbating over a girl getting changed through the window.
Sam Howie and Henry Caulton chased the man in the early hours of Tuesday May 9, in the area surrounding Cosy Dell Road in North Dunedin.
 

Caulton awoke just after midnight on the morning in question, and saw a “suspicious character” lurking around the carport of the neighbouring flat. Reports have been circulating over the past two years that there has been a “Peeping Tom character lurking around, looking into girls’ bedrooms while they are getting changed.” Howie had in fact chased the same man on two previous occasions but failed to catch him.
 

Caulton rang Howie from the neighbouring flat to alert him to the man’s presence, as it has been “his prime goal to catch this bastard for the past two years.” Critic can only imagine the amount of time this has taken up for Howie, who should probably start some form of Scarfie Neighbourhood Watch scheme. If it wouldn’t start further rumours of Peeping Poms, Critic would definitely shout him a pair of binoculars.

 
Howie and Caulton coordinated a plan to corner the man, foiled only by an oncoming car spooking their target. Further alarmed by Caulton’s shout of “OI CUNT,” which apparently woke “the whole of Cosy Dell,” the man sprinted away up Queen Street. Our heroes immediately pursued him barefoot and armed only with a torch - lucky they don’t sleep naked or the police could have been arresting all three of them.

 
Caulton and Howie found the man hiding in a bush on a private property, where they apprehended him and “put him under a citizen’s arrest.” Howie searched the man for a weapon of any sort while Caulton called the police. The two then “escorted the man back to the Cosy Dell area and waited for the police to arrive.”
 

Critic understands that the man in question had been lurking around the Cosy Dell area for around four hours before the two apprehended him, leaving his car on Park Street before walking to his “hot spots.”

 
Caulton describes Cosy Dell as a “hot spot” because of the large proportion of female inhabitants of the area, who are now “too scared to even walk to their cars outside at night.” He indicated that the man knew the area very well; “he knew exactly where he was running” and “admitted that he had been around the Cosy Dell area many times before.” Caulton said that an incident like this is “not such an issue for guys, but girls need to be careful and close those curtains.”
 

Caulton told Critic that the suspect is an “old guy,” and he has been charged with similar things before. He expressed uncertainty about the level of threat posed by “this type of person,” but speculates that “if he is going to be masturbating over girls getting changed then God only knows what he could do.”
 

Caulton is dubious about the ability of the New Zealand justice system to deal with this particular individual, saying “he will probably get a slap on the hand and then be back at it again.”

 
“This sort of human piece of shit should be put away for the rest of his life.”
 

Critic understands the suspect has been charged with acting indecently in public and was due to appear in the Dunedin District Court last week.