Peeping tom farmer who secretly filmed girls undressing at holiday cottage is jailed. By. Daily Mail Reporter. Updated. 0. 9: 1. GMT, 6 November 2. A peeping tom who secretly filmed women and schoolgirls undressing at a remote rural holiday cottage was jailed for two- and- a- half years today. Farmer David Sturgess, 5. A judge branded his action a 'gross intrusion' as he passed sentence at Swansea Crown Court.

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Voyeur: David Sturgess was jailed for two- and- a- half years for secretly filming women and schoolgirls undressing at his remote rural holiday cottage. His comments came after he had heard that Sturgess's victims had felt 'violated and angry' at the intrusion into their private moments. Watch Breaking The Girls Full Movie here. Sturgess, who was turned in by a former girlfriend, rigged up an array of high- tech cameras hidden inside fake smoke detectors at his rural retreat in Llandysul, Powys. He then filmed women in various states of undress and also in the shower and on the toilet. Among his victims were schoolgirls aged 1. A trial at the same venue last month heard Sturgess was able to zoom in on his victims using the hidden cameras and also crank up the volume. He would also record live images to re- view later 'for his own sexual gratification'.

Sturgess was found guilty of 1. During the trial he had refused to take the stand to give evidence in his own defence. The jury went on to take just two hours to find him guilty of all charges. Picturesque: Isfryn Cottage in Llandysul, Powys. Sturgess had rigged the rural retreat with an array of hidden cameras.

Sturgess is originally from Abingdon in Oxfordshire and moved to the Welsh village to farm a smallholding. He converted an outbuilding attached to his own farmhouse into a holiday cottage and advertised it for let for £4. Welsh Tourist Board. His secret life unravelled when he split from his long- term partner Teresa Crick, after seven years, who went on to report him to the police. Officers raided the smallholding in September last year and found cameras hidden in the holiday cottage's bathroom, bedrooms, kitchen and lounge. The sophisticated array was linked to TV monitors and recording equipment in a room in his own farmhouse.

Police also seized a video which proved to contain recorded images of a dozen victims made throughout 2. In evidence Ms Crick had described Sturgess as a 'frightening and controlling man'. She had described their sexual lifestyle as swingers and claimed she would sexually gratify him while he watched his secret recordings of guests. Christopher James, prosecuting, told the court today those same guests had been 'distressed, shocked and angry' to learn that they had secretly been filmed by Sturgess. Watch Scandal Online. He said one woman in particular, who had children aged six and three, had spoken of her feelings of 'deep upset' that a family holiday she had struggled to pay for had been 'violated'. Geraint Walters, in mitigation, said: 'Mr Sturgess's position is still that he was not responsible for this.'He said he acknowledged the judge would pass sentence on his client on the basis of the jury's verdict.

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Judge Keith Thomas told Sturgess today his actions had been a 'gross intrusion of privacy on these people who rightly felt devastated and upset that you have ruined their family holidays by imposing upon them, as you have, by spying.'He added: 'This was private accommodation which people paid you to rent out for their family holidays.'They were entitled to think that there was an additional level of privacy about it.'The judge also ordered that Sturgess be put on the sex offenders register indefinitely and also banned him from working with children indefinitely.