A former college lecturer twice caught performing a solo sex act in supermarket car parks in west Wales and who secretly filmed women in their bathroom has escaped a prison sentence.

Anthony George Rundle, aged 51, was made the subject of a three-year conditional discharge and placed under supervision for three years.

Rundle, of Glebelands, Johnston, was also ordered to take part in a sex offenders programme.

Judge Paul Thomas told Swansea Crown Court that a short prison sentence would not allow time for Rundle’s offending to be addressed.

Rundle had denied two charges of exposure and four of voyeurism but was convicted unanimously following a trial.

On March 12, 2014, a woman shopper visiting the Tesco store in Cardigan saw Rundle drive slowly past with his trousers around his knees and his genitals exposed. She noticed Rundle drive around the car park and stopping twice before leaving.

In May, 2014, a female employee at the Marks and Spencer store at Withybush, Haverfordwest, saw Rundle with his right hand on the steering wheel and his left hand on his penis while his jeans were around his knees.

Police arrested Rundle ten days later and removed his computers.

On one of the machines experts found four different videos. Each had been taken by a camera focussed on what was clearly the bathroom of a caravan. Rundle had been staying in a neighbouring caravan.

Two of the films showed women removing their clothes before taking showers and in all four videos the private parts of the women could be seen.

Rundle told the jury he suffered from a medical condition and at the time of the car park incidents he had been preparing to urinate. He claimed to have made the videos as a joke after being told the women involved had been exhibitionists.

He had intended to put the footage on the internet, but later changed his mind.

Rundle was sacked when Pembrokeshire college learned of his arrest.