A FORMER army warrant officer has been jailed for spying on a teenage girl as she undressed.

Neil Parry used a camera with a telephoto lens and a camcorder to record a 16-year-old girl.

The 42-year-old, who was based at Shrivenham Defence Academy on the Oxon/Wilts border at the time, was also found with a collection of child pornography on his laptop and desktop computers.

The married father-of-three, formerly of North Street, Watchfield, was given a community order in 2002 after he admitted indecently assaulting a 14-year-old army cadet at a barracks.

At Oxford Crown Court on Friday he was jailed for a year for his latest offences after earlier admitting four counts of making indecent photographs of children and two charges of voyeurism. Parry is no longer serving in the army, according to the MoD.

Kate Tompkins, prosecuting, said Parry was arrested on October 26, 2009, following investigations into another man who had been distributing child pornography.

However, he was declared not fit to be interviewed after suffering “retrograde amnesia” in 2008. He was re-arrested in May 2010. In total, 76 images were found on his computers, with 68 at the least serious level one of five. Three were at level three and five were at level four.

Judge Patrick Eccles, said: “The gravity of this sort of offending is simply this – by wishing to look at these images you wish children to be abused... and so the abuse of children continues for this purpose.”

Addressing the voyeurism charges, he added: “You violated her privacy, not only in some accidental way, but you set up a camera and telephoto lens to capture her.”