GAZETTE & HERALD: THE Olympiad Leisure Centre has spent £20,000 on CCTV equipment after pervert Paul Wearing was caught peeping at two nine-year-old girls in the changing rooms.

Wearing, of Homefield, Yate, was banned from every leisure centre in Britain by North Wiltshire Magistrates in Chippenham on Tuesday.

He had admitted looking under the partition wall of the centre's unisex changing rooms at the girls on June 22.

When interviewed by police Wearing admitted three other cases of spying on women in changing rooms.

Nicola Wootton, prosecuting, said the girls saw him looking underneath the partition and then pretending to be asleep before he got up. After a few seconds he took his shoes off and then a few minutes later they saw him over the top of the changing room cubicle.

Mrs Wootton said: "I ask on behalf of the police to consider a sexual prevention order. I do that on the basis not only of this offence but also on information given by the police.''

She revealed a series of other offences in Bristol.

Mrs Wootton said: "The victim, a woman, was at the leisure centre with her husband and children. She said she had seen him at the centre twice.

"He has admitted one further offence which happened at the Farmhouse Inn in Yate. He travels far and wide to commit this sort of offence.''

Julie Phillips, defending, said her client admitted the offences when he was first interviewed by the police.

She said: "His motive is his desire to look at the adult female form and it's not motivated by children. He has shown remorse and he realises what he did and how wrong it was.''

Wearing was sentenced to a three-year community rehabilitation order with the Thames Valley Sexual Offenders' Programme as well as being placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years.

North Wiltshire Leisure Limited, which runs the Olmpiad, has improved its CCTV system following the incident. Commercial director Gary Milne said: "We have upgraded our internal CCTV which makes it easier to track people. The £20,000 investment had been on the plans but was speeded up.''

Mr Milne said there was no intention to change to single-sex changing rooms.