Man Banned From Every Women's Toilet in the UK After McDonald's Incident

Police have released a picture of Asere Shumba, a man who has been banned from every women's toilet in the UK. Shumba was recently jailed after breaching a court order when he was found in the women's toilets at a McDonald's in Derby.

Derby Crown Court heard that Shumba, of Shakespeare Street, Sinfin, was caught by a female staff member in the cubicles of the ladies' toilet at the St Peter's Street branch just after 6pm on December 28, 2022.

Shumba had already been banned from using women's toilets due to previous incidents involving him taking photographs of women in the lavatories at a Sinfin McDonald's and the former Walkabout bar in the Market Place.

His photograph was circulated among staff at the St Peter's Street McDonald's, leading to his arrest after he was spotted entering the women's toilets. He was arrested at his home address later that evening.

A female staff member at the St Peter's Street McDonald's gave a statement to the court describing how she saw Shumba enter the women's toilets. "I recognised him and he followed me upstairs and made some conversation with me. I thought he was going to sit down and order some food but instead, I watched as he walked into the female toilets," she said.

The staff member continued, "There was a woman in the toilets and when they entered she said 'I think there's a male in one of the cubicles acting suspiciously' so she banged on the door and the defendant replied 'what do you want?' They said to him 'you are in the female toilets, you need to get out' and he replied 'I thought this was the male toilets?'."

Serena Varatharajay, prosecuting, stated, "He was convicted on June 9, 2021, of voyeurism and that offence was for him hiding in a toilet and taking photographs of a female in the cubicle next door. His phone was seized and on it was found images of people. On December 28, last year, the defendant was in McDonald's in Derby and was seen entering the female toilets by a female staff member. She asked him to leave and he replied that he thought it was the male toilets."

In January 2021, Shumba was given a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) after being convicted of two counts of voyeurism. He had filmed women using the female toilets at a McDonald's restaurant in Surrey and then again at the former Walkabout bar in Derby.

The SHPO prohibited Shumba from entering any women's toilets or changing rooms, but he breached the order by entering the female toilets again late last year.

On two previous occasions, Shumba had locked himself in toilet cubicles and filmed women using the facilities. On one occasion, he was spotted and ran out of the fast-food outlet, chased by a woman who felt "violated" by the incident. On the second occasion in Derby, he was identified, arrested by police, and attempted to escape before being apprehended.

Almost 400 upskirt-style photographs were discovered on Shumba's mobile phone. Recorder Graham Huston, sentencing Shumba to 20 weeks in prison, said, "You now understand that the breaching of that order leads to custody and you have now been remanded for the last eight weeks. You will then be on a 12-month licence after that and should you be arrested in similar circumstances you can expect to be returned to custody."

Lauren Fisher, mitigating, said her client had pleaded guilty to breaching the sexual harm prevention order at the earliest opportunity. She also stated that he had completed all of the unpaid work, treatment programmes, and probation service requirements from his last sentence.