A barrister who was "addicted" to internet child porn and had a fetish for filming up women's skirts in supermarkets has been jailed for more than three years.

Simon Austin Hamilton, 35, now of north London but formerly of Bosham, West Sussex, was found guilty at Canterbury Crown Court of five offences of outraging public decency and of nine charges of possessing, downloading and taking indecent photographs of children.

Police also revealed he filmed more than 80 women when capturing "upskirts". He was prosecuted for five such offences.

The jury of seven women and five men delivered a unanimous verdict.

A series of images contained in one of Hamilton's computer files showed a three to five-yearold girl engaged in sex acts. When police raided his house they discovered 7,500 files, many of which were pornographic, on his computer.

Hamilton admitted his penchant for taking "upskirt" shots of women was bizarre. He trawled Sainsburys supermarket in Chichester filming "upskirts" of unsuspecting women.

He told the jury he had too much time on his hands and gave up his habit when called to the bar in 2001 because it was "no longer an appropriate or convenient habit to indulge in."

He said the pleasure was in building up a collection and denied he got any sexual gratification. The charge of taking an indecent photograph relates to a video of a 14-year-old girl sitting in a Chichester leisure centre.

Hamilton received a sentence of three years and nine months; two years for downloading child pornography, three years concurrent for possessing and for downloading child pornography, and nine months for taking "upskirt" shots.