Black tape moustache disguise for leisure centre Peeping Tom

Neil Smith, 57, admitted secretly videoing a mother and her five-year-old son getting changed at Hillsborough Leisure Centre in Sheffield, leaving her feeling "exposed and vulnerable."

Police uncovered a peeping Tom's tool kit when they searched Smith's plastic bag, which included a plastic ruler attached to a video recorder, a bottle of lubricant and a mirror.

Smith, who admitted voyeurism, was convicted of committing exactly the same offence at Doncaster Leisure Centre six years ago.

On this latest occasion, in August, he was spotted by his victim pointing a camera into the cubicle, Sheffield Crown Court heard.

Police found a clip of the woman and child in a memory card hidden inside a sock, as well as covert footage showing other females getting changed.

Nicola Quinney, prosecuting, said: "As the victim was getting herself and her son changed she noticed a hand holding a camcorder under the cubicle, moving the lens about, seemingly in her view to get a better view."

The victim confronted the defendant, who denied having done anything wrong, the court heard.

Handing Smith a three-year community order with supervision, Judge Simon Lawler QC said he was torn between jailing him or giving him a community order which would allow him to be rehabilitated.

He said: "I have to try and prevent re-offending by you and protect the public in the long term."

Smith, of Victoria Road, Old Town, Barnsley, was also ordered to attend a sex offender programme.

Richard Barradell, mitigating, said: "For what it is worth he couldn't feel more shame. He couldn't be more embarrassed.