HEREFORDSHIRE businessman Adrian Drabble has avoided prison after being found guilty of voyeurism involving a 15-year-old girl.

He was ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid community work, made subject to a rehabilitation order of up to 40 days to be completed by 2022, and told to pay £250 compensation to his victim and £700 costs.

But the mother of his teenage victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she thought the sentence too lenient.

The court ordered the destruction of Drabble's computer tower and mobile.

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He cannot possess any device for storing digital data unless it is made available on request for inspection by a police officer, and he cannot delete any history of its use.

A restraining order of indefinite duration has also been placed on him, and a sexual prevention order means he cannot contact any female under 16 unless it is reasonably unavoidable.

Drabble, who was sentenced at Hereford Magistrates Court on July 3, was found guilty at the same court in June.

A director of Crystal Carpets, Drabble also ran a small modelling agency, and the filming was revealed when a young model found a mobile phone recording in a changing room she was using at the Ledbury shop.

At his court case last month, Sarah Hurd, prosecuting, told the court that on December 16, 2017, Drabble had collected the girl from her home to go shopping for clothes before taking her to his business for a shoot.

The teenager was told to bring both a black bra and a white bra and that she would need to change her underwear to co-ordinate with the clothes she was wearing during the shoot.

On entering the changing room, an upstairs office in the building, she found a mobile phone hidden in a box with the camera turned on.

But the victim became suspicious after noticing a picture of the inside of the changing room on Drabble’s computer.