BBC man who secretly filmed himself having sex with lovers is jailed

A BBC producer was jailed for eight months today for secretly filming himself having sex with five women.

Benjamin Wilkins, 37, hid a camera in the smoke alarm above his bed and another in his bathroom. He kept the recordings on DVDs, each marked with the name of the woman and replayed for his sexual gratification.

After his arrest, at least one victim worked alongside Wilkins before he resigned from BBC Radio London.

One former lover said she needed counselling after discovering what Wilkins had done and felt "violated, sick, dirty and stupid". Wilkins has since written to his victims to apologise, saying: "It was a terrible betrayal of trust and a thoroughly unpleasant and dishonest thing to do."

Wilkins, of Brixton, pleaded guilty to 11 charges of voyeurism between January 2005 and July 2008. Sentencing at Inner London crown court, Judge Roger Chapple said he was punishing Wilkins "not for your sexual appetite or morals, but the trust you calculatedly betrayed". He added: "It's a cruel, selfish and serious betrayal of the trust [the women] had placed in you."

The court heard that Wilkins's partner and mother of his two-year-old son had found the DVDs in his loft.

In a statement read to the court, one victim told how she had to seek counselling for six weeks after she found out. She said: "I now have trust issues with men and it has caused stress in my current relationship."

On his release from prison, Wilkins must sign the sex offenders' register for 10 years.