An alleged serial peeping Tom has been charged with trespassing after he was chased down by a powerlifter in his pyjamas and arrested in the front yard of a Queensland home.
Powerlifter Tim Nickson alleged he had noticed the same man outside his house for weeks before the arrest was made last Friday night.
CCTV footage shows the moment the alleged peeping Tom was chased down by Nickson and tackled after a 700-metre pursuit.
The security footage from Nickson’s home shows a man pressing his face to a window.
The unwelcome visitor is then seen running away from the home at speed.
But Nickson also happens to be a marathon runner, and after a 700-metre dash in the dark, he tackled the man.
Nickson can be heard calling the man a pervert, and kept the man in a choke-hold until police arrived.
He told 9News he had been “hunting him for months”.
“I didn’t have any time to put on my shoes. I was in my jammies,” Nickson said.
“I quickly unlocked the door and I was locked on, man”.
Nickson claimed he and his wife have been spied on at least five times at their Meridan Plains home on the Sunshine Coast.
The 28-year-old man who Nickson chased down was charged with one count of trespassing.
He will appear before a magistrate next month.
