A 49-year-old man who set up video cameras to spy on a girl in a bathroom and bedroom has been jailed for eight months.

Kevin Wooldridge used a small spy camera disguised as a pen to get footage of the teenager and used the covert device to spy on the girl's mother as she changed in a bedroom.

Wooldridge, who denied any wrongdoing, was convicted of five counts of voyeurism following a trial at Swindon Crown Court. He was cleared of a sixth charge.

He was living in Marlborough when he committed the offences in the year up to January 2013.

Wooldridge, now of Thatcham, Berkshire, pleaded not guilty to all six charges saying he had no sexual motive for setting up the cameras.

But last month a jury rejected his version of events finding him guilty by a ten to two majority on four counts and 11 to one on the other.

Steven Molloy, defending, said his client had always been a well thought of, hard-working man who continued to deny the offences.

Mr Molloy said Wooldridge's computers were examined by police following his arrest and nothing untoward was found on them. He said that Wooldridge accepted he was wrong to do what he did but insists he was not acting in a sexual way.

"The thought didn't cross his mind when he did it that he would end up in court for it staring down the barrel of a custodial sentence," said Mr Molloy.

As well as jailing him, Judge Tim Mousley QC also imposed a sexual offences prevention order.

He said: "You pleaded not guilty, that is your right, but that meant a great deal of time passed before the trial could take place and they had to give evidence and relive matters of a personal nature before a court and effectively in a room full of strangers.

"You didn't have the courage to accept what you had done. It is quite obvious that you still fail to appreciate the seriousness of these offences.

"You completely changed the lives of two people for the worse, one can hope not permanently. Perhaps you have ruined their lives.

"You took no responsibility for what you did. Innocent though you say it was you accept it was a breach of their privacy.

"You have shown no remorse, or very limited remorse. You should feel ashamed for what you did, but you don't.

"This was planned, you went and bought a small camera which was designed as a pen. That is a very serious aspect of this case."