A sex-pest police officer has been locked up for secretly filming up the skirt of a teenage girl in Manchester's Arndale centre. Aidan Thompson, a married GMP constable, was caught on security cameras at the TK Maxx shop 'stalking' a 17-year-old for up to 40 minutes.

He followed her and then filmed her with a camera, which was hidden inside a plastic bag with a hole in it, a court heard. He also took footage of another young woman when he was called to investigate a serious sexual attack against her flatmate. The 35-year-old police constable was jailed for 14 months by a judge at Preston Crown Court on Monday. He is believed to be suspended from duty with Greater Manchester Police and will be dismissed.

His wife, family and colleagues were said to be staggered at the behaviour of the otherwise dedicated policeman. Investigators also recovered footage from Thompson of women undressed in changing rooms and even from the locker room of a police station. Thompson, from Stockport, admitted two counts of misconduct in a public office and outraging public decency at an earlier hearing.

Passing sentence Judge Mark Brown, Recorder of Preston, told him: “You not only have let yourself down, you have let the police service down as well. “Hardly surprising that this sort of conduct should undermine so significantly the confidence people have in police officers. “The offences were committed for a very simple reason - you had an unhealthy interest in these young women, you wished to gain sexual gratification by filming them and that was what you were determined to do.

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