Royal Shrewsbury Hospital worker filmed colleagues in toilets

The films Steven Wynne had taken at the hospital of men using the toilets were discovered by police when they searched his home in relation to an inquiry into images of child sexual abuse.

Wynne, 33, of Ash Grove in Chirk, admitted four charges of making indecent images by downloading them from the internet, four charges of possessing them and a charge of voyeurism – filming adult men doing a private act for his own gratification – at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital where he worked.

But he escaped immediate imprisonment at Mold Crown Court.

Wynne, who has been dismissed and now carries out voluntary work, was placed on rehabilitation and sent on a three-year internet sex offender programme.

He must register with the police as a sex offender for five years and a five-year sexual harm prevention order was made.

Judge Geraint Walters told Wynne, who had no previous convictions, that he was an achiever who managed to graduate with a bio-chemistry degree and found himself employment at the hospital.

"Outwardly your life was perfectly normal," he said. "But underneath all that there was a secret that only you knew."

It was a secret which involved routinely accessing pornographic images of children, the court was told.

Wynne had been found with a large number of images and movies. He was found to have hidden mini cameras in the staff gents' toilets at the hospital and images of adult males using the facilities had been recorded by him.

That had involved some degree of determination and sophistication and there was an element of a breach of trust.

The judge told him: "It is hard to imagine someone sinking to greater depths while outwardly appearing decent and an achiever in the work place."

Mr Alun Williams, for Wynne, said that his client was a young man of exemplary character who since his arrest had followed a Lucy Faithful Foundation Course and had received help from an occupational therapist through his then employers.

Wynne was mortified by what he had done and was willing to change, Mr Williams said.