A MAN used a concealed camera to film women in a bathroom as part of a series of “grubby offences”.

Douglas Walls was found with recordings of two young women changing and using the toilet.

He was caught after an unrelated burglary investigation two years later led police to search his computer.

Officers were alerted when Walls showed a neighbour intimate photos of a completely unrelated young woman which had been stored on a stolen games console.

The 30-year-old father-of-two admitted six counts of voyeurism, five of making indecent images and one charge of handling stolen goods and was given a three-year community order at Oxford Crown Court .

Walls, of Highworth Place, Witney, must complete a sex offenders’ treatment programme and sign the sex offenders’ register for five years.

The hidden camera offences took place in 2007, but it was not until a burglary in November 2009 that Walls came to police attention.

Prosecutor Rachel Drake said: “The case involved the police examining his computer that was seized as part of a burglary investigation, and on examination they found a series of recordings which must have been made by a mobile telephone in a bathroom.”

Miss Drake said the clips “of not inconsiderable length” showed “intimate activities” and their discovery caused the women “a great deal of distress”.

In the other incident, the girlfriend of a man whose PlayStation 3 was taken in a burglary began receiving text messages from Walls containing intimate photos of herself.

The images had been found on the games console which Walls admitted receiving after it was stolen.

Speaking to the Oxford Mail after the court case, the woman said: “I was hoping he would go to prison. He’s not a nice person at all.”

The woman added: “I’m not really happy about the sentence. I just think that going to prison would have shocked him into never doing it again.”

Judge Anthony King told Walls: “These were grubby offences, intrusive beyond belief, prying into the most private matters, spying on women for your own sexual gratification.

“I suppose it’s not wholly surprising you were (initially) unable to admit to what you had done because you ought to have been deeply ashamed of it.”