A voyeur who set up a sham massage business in his Bath flat so that he could film naked women was this week jailed for 14 months.

Smooth-talking Narbath Nadine secretly filmed eight young women after tricking them into becoming his first clients as they stood nude after a bath and were massaged on his futon.

The 52-year-old had cut spyholes in the wall of his bathroom at Ballance Street, and rigged cameras in a cupboard.

He even persuaded the women to be blindfolded as he massaged them but he was rumbled when two of the victims mentioned the defendant's odd practices to a manager at a gym and then contacted the police.

Nadine was arrested and pleaded guilty to nine offences of voyeurism and eight offences of sexual assault.

He was jailed for 14 months at Bristol Crown Court and will be on the Sex Offenders' Register for five years.

Mary Harley, prosecuting, said Nadine had met his first victim in January this year, telling her that he was looking for 50 clients for a massage and hairdressing business he was setting up at his home.

The defendant met the woman again in a pub on January 27 before taking her to his flat, which was furnished only with a futon mattress on the floor and a chair.

Mrs Harley said the defendant had claimed that his girlfriend was in an adjoining room hairdressing.

She said the victim was then encouraged to have a bath in the bathroom and a bottle of vodka was provided to help her relax.

"He told her that as the bath water was hot, she should get out from time to time and stand in a bowl of cold water and lean over on the bath," said Mrs Harley.

She said the defendant had cut spyholes into the bathroom wall at waist height so that women could be filmed without them knowing.

The court heard the victim had then been invited into the massage room and blindfolded before she was massaged around the area of her breasts and buttocks and the top of her thighs.

Her back was then massaged as she sat on a chair before she went back to the bathroom to dress.

Mrs Harley said the woman was then asked to complete a form that appeared to have the NHS logo on it.

She said six other victims aged in their 20s, and a 19-year-old student, had all gone to Nadine's flat where they were filmed and sexually assaulted.

She said the defendant was finally arrested when two of the women on separate occasions told the manager at a gym about their odd experience.

The women were put in touch with each other and one contacted the police.

When the flat was searched in April, 24 video cassettes were seized and the eight victims were identified from the footage.

Mrs Harley said it became clear that the defendant was taking pictures of them blindfolded while he touched himself.

Charles Row, defending, said his client had never intended to distribute the films and pictures of the victims.

He said his client suffered from arthritis in one arm and had been taking 24 tablets a day at the time of the offences, which had affected his judgement and behaviour.

Mr Row said Nadine had attended a massage course 20 years ago which he did not complete and had found he became sexually aroused by massage.

Jailing Nadine, Judge James Tabor QC said: "The gravity of the offence is the breach of trust of the women concerned, the amount of times and amount of women you assaulted and the care and precision you took to set up this entire charade.

"It's unsurprising your victims felt violated, upset and vulnerable.

"Vulnerable because they feared that what you had taken with your cine film and hand held camera might find its way into the public domain because it's so easy now for pictures to be published."