A man has admitted trying to take a picture up the skirt of a 15-year-old schoolgirl.

Jordan MacArthur, 23, pleaded guilty to an ‘upskirting’ charge when he appeared at Medway Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday afternoon.

MacArthur, of Ivy Close, Gravesend, was charged with attempting to operate equipment beneath clothing of another without consent while in the same town on July 7, 2021.

Prosectuor Alan Balneaves told the court the young girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had just turned 15 and was walking to school in her uniform when MacArthur “approached from an alleyway” and tried to take a photo up her skirt with his Samsung mobile phone.

He added: “Fortunately for the victim the picture was of the pavement.”

MacArthur had originally denied a charge of operating equipment beneath the clothing of another without consent when he appeared at Medway Magistrates’ Court in December.

He changed his plea to guilty when the charge was changed to include attempted to.

District Judge William Nelson, who said MacArthur had no previous offences, adjourned the hearing until a pre-sentence report could be heard.

Sentencing is set to take place at Sevenoaks Magistrates’ Court on June 15.