A MAN has been found guilty of filming women using the toilet after he bought a “spy pen” from eBay.

Tomasz Bubis, of Normanhurst Avenue, was found guilty by Bournemouth magistrates for observing a person doing a private act in April last year at an address in Verwood.

The 32-year-old will be sentenced at Poole Magistrates’ Court on February 2, and was granted unconditional bail until that time.

Prosecutor Dan O’Neill told the court Bubis had filmed two women using the facilities by placing the camera covertly behind a sanitary bin in a cubicle.

When interviewed by police on April 12 Bubis admitted to putting the camera there because he was “curious” about whether women sat on or hovered over the toilet seat and “was not doing it for sexual gratification”.

Mr O’Neill said Bubis had shown “a pattern” of voyeurism after photographing women on the beach while on holiday with his wife in Tenerife. Bubis had claimed he and his wife were “having a laugh” while doing it and images taken of various women’s parts were “something for [his wife] to achieve”.

Representing himself at Tuesday’s hearing Bubis told the court that in October 2014 his mother had become very ill and passed away two months later. He was struggling to deal with her death and had been experiencing flashbacks from his childhood when he said he was sexually abused.

He claimed his perpetrator had raped him and would take him to the toilet where he would watch him use the facilities.

“I couldn’t understand it fully,” Bubis told the court with the help of a Polish interpreter, as he fought back tears.

“It wasn’t my goal to have any sexual gratification from it. I just wanted to understand my perpetrator, what he saw, what he felt - this is what I wanted to understand.

“I’m glad that the whole thing came to light because it made me feel better mentally that I could speak about my problems because I’m not sure what would have happened in two or three months.”

The court heard Bubis had been prescribed antidepressants and was awaiting therapy having had suicidal thoughts.

When asked why he had changed his line of defence since his initial interview Bubis claimed he was not able to disclose his past to strangers and still found it very hard to talk about.

Mr O’Neill said: “That abuse, as difficult as it is, is a smokescreen for acting the way you did.”

Magistrate Steve Crockford told Bubis, who had no previous convictions, to expect a “high level” community order.