A policeman who filmed a woman undressing on his iPad has been jailed.

Kieran Ball, 30, secretly recorded the woman on the device which he had placed on a window sill.

Ball, who served with the British Transport Police (BTP) in Coventry was found guilty of voyeurism at Leamington Crown Court in April.

He was jailed for 12 months at a sentencing hearing, and issued with a restraining order banning him from contacting the victim or going within 100 metres of her address.

The Judge also ordered him to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years.

The incident happened in June 2021 when Ball was a serving police officer.

A woman went to have a shower when she noticed an iPad belonging to Ball propped up on the window sill.

She saw the iPad had been set on record for nearly six minutes and had recorded a video of her undressing.

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The victim took a video of this recording on her mobile phone and reported the incident.

Warwickshire Police seized Ball's mobile devices and he was suspended from duty immediately.

Ball never accepted any wrongdoing and tried to claim in court he had been using the iPad to pleasure himself, police said.

But a jury found him guilty and he was sacked from the force by the Chief Constable, following an accelerated misconduct hearing in May.

Deputy Chief Constable Alistair Sutherland said there was "no place for him" in the force.

Speaking after sentencing, DCC Sutherland said: "Ball is a convicted sex offender who attempted to invade a woman's privacy in a space she had every right to feel safe in – so it is absolutely right that he's been punished for the abhorrent crime he committed.

"He has clearly undermined the thousands of BTP officers who day in and day out work tirelessly to protect women and girls, and rightly hold themselves to the highest standards of integrity whether they are at work, at home, or anywhere else.

"We suspended Ball immediately, but we did not take any disciplinary action at this stage due to the risk in prejudicing the criminal proceedings – achieving the right outcome for the victim was something we cared very strongly about.

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"As soon as he was convicted we used the accelerated misconduct hearing process and the Chief Constable dismissed him from British Transport Police."

DCC Sutherland added: "His actions are entirely inconsistent with our values and there is clearly no place in our force for individuals who behave like him."