WHEN former model Michelle Pharo looks back at her wedding photographs, the happy memories from her special day are tainted.
Photographer David Glover, who she once considered a friend, documented her marriage, but unbeknown to Michelle had secretly filmed her undressing years earlier.
Sick Glover, 48, hid a camera in an alarm clock in the dressing room of his studio and filmed Michelle, 39, for 40 minutes whilst she changed during one of their shoots together.
The pervert then agreed to shoot Michelle’s wedding and charged her the full price of £1,500.
In March this year, Glover was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to five counts of voyeurism against 35 women.
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Now Michelle, who has bravely waived her right to anonymity, is speaking out to encourage other potential victims to come forward.
The events manager, from Essex, says: “David was my friend and I trusted him.
“The fact that he agreed to shoot my wedding, knowing he had naked footage of me, is disgusting.
“I want other survivors to come forward if they think they could be one of David’s victims.”
Michelle became friends with Glover when she started modelling aged 20.
He photographed her in underwear, swimwear and evening dresses for her modelling portfolio.
Michelle explains: “David always made me feel at ease and told me I looked good.
“I always loved the photos he took of me.”
Thanks to Glover’s pictures, Michelle managed to get modelling work for women’s fashion catalogues and car magazines, and they kept in touch outside of work too.
In 2015, Michelle’s partner, Richard, 40, a marketing manager and DJ, went along to a shoot to see her in action.
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Michelle says: “That day, I modelled various bikinis.
“I used the dressing room to change, which was tiny and cluttered.
“As always, David was really lovely.”
Wedding joy
The following year, in 2016, Michelle and Richard got engaged, and she wanted Glover to be her wedding photographer.
She says: “Richard’s friend had offered to photograph our wedding for free, but I insisted on having David.
“When I asked him, he jumped at the opportunity and we agreed to pay him £1,500.”
In May 2018, Michelle and Richard married.
She remembers: “David was there the whole day and said how beautiful I looked.
“He emailed the photos to us when we were on our honeymoon in Barbados. They were magical.
“We sent them round to all our family and friends and had them framed in our home.”
But in March 2019, one of Michelle’s modelling friends had posted on Facebook about Glover, claiming he hid cameras in his changing rooms.
She explains: “I messaged her and she told me that she’d found a camera in the dressing room of a studio that she was shooting in with David.
“When she watched the footage back, she saw David setting up the camera. I was disgusted and told her to go to the police.
“I convinced myself that because David and I were friends, there’s no way he would’ve done that to me.”
Hidden camera
Two years later, in 2021, Michelle saw a news article about Glover being arrested for voyeurism.
Police had found 900 videos of over 100 women getting changed.
He’d secretly filmed them by hiding a camera in an alarm clock in the dressing rooms of his studios.
Michelle remembers: “Worried that he’d filmed me too, I immediately contacted the police.
“An officer asked me to submit an image of myself, along with dates of when I’d had shoots with David.”
The same day, the officer emailed an image of Michelle naked in a dressing room that she had to confirm.
He then called her to say Glover had taken a 40-minute video of Michelle getting changed at the shoot that she attended in 2015.
Michelle says: “I felt sick when I saw it.
“It was the shoot that my husband came to too. I told him and he was devastated.”
The following week, Michelle gave her statement to the police. Sickeningly, Glover maintained his innocence.
Over a year later, in December 2022 on the first day of trial, Glover pleaded guilty to five counts of voyeurism.
In March this year, he was sentenced at Cambridge Crown Court to one year and eight months in prison.
He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.
Michelle says: “I prepared a statement that was read out on my behalf.
“David didn’t look at me once, instead keeping his eyes down.”
Michelle hasn’t modelled since discovering the film and isn't planning to again.
Michelle explains: “Now, I can’t even go to the toilet in public without checking for cameras.
“David has made me second guess everything.
“And whenever I look at my wedding photos, the happy memories are tainted by what he did.
“Please, if you think you could be one of David’s victims, come forward. That pervert needs to learn his lesson.”
