A DEPUTY head's teaching career and family life is in tatters today after his double-life as a perverted peeping Tom was exposed.

Glen Rogers secretly filmed women in states of undress with hidden spy cameras. When was caught police found hundreds of images of child abuse on his computers.

His sickening behaviour stunned wife Vicky as well as colleagues at St John's Catholic School and Sixth Form College in Bishop Auckland, County Durham.

Mrs Rogers booted him out of their £400,000 home on the upmarket Wynyard estate near Stockton, and has since moved away with their two children.

Her husband quit his job at the 1,300-pupil school - a "learning community guided by Gospel values", according to its website - after his arrest a year ago.

He was arrested after his wife, looking for proof of his infidelity, searched his computers and found some of the 1,400 spy camera videos he had made.

When police seized his equipment last July, they also unearthed more than 500 child abuse photos downloaded from the internet, said Harry Hadfield, prosecuting.

Rogers' wife contemplated divorce proceedings in April last year after finding videos on his laptop of him indulging in sexual activity with another woman.

Three months later, as she tried to recover some of the files, she discovered the spy camera films and called police, Teesside Crown Court heard.

Rogers, now of Navigation Point, Hartlepool, admitted 14 charges of voyeurism and three of making indecent images of children at court yesterday.

He was given a 13-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, with supervision and ordered to go on a sex offenders' treatment programme.

Judge Les Spittle - who also banned him for life from working with children - said the treatment was essential to tackle his behaviour.

Ian West, mitigating, told the court that Rogers was at a low ebb during the six months he made the secret films because his marriage was crumbling.

Mr West said all but a handful of the indecent images the once-respected teacher saved from the internet were of the lowest level of seriousness.

"It has been a difficult year," said Mr West. "He has lost his job, of course, but he hasn't simply felt sorry for himself.

"He has retrained and got himself work. His marriage has broken up, and he hasn't seen his children in the last 12 months.

"His wife has now moved to the south of England with the children, and the only contact he has had with them over that past year has been on the telephone."

A statement from the school said: "Glen Rogers has not worked at our school since July 2012 when the matter was first brought to our attention.

"We have co-operated fully with police during the investigation and have been assured that the activity on which he has been convicted took place away from school.

"We have an outstanding record on safeguarding and have written to all parents about the situation."

The court heard how the secret recordings - which featured four women - included his victims taking a shower, using a loo, undressing and in their underwear.

They were saved onto electronic storage devices with a description of what they contained, said Mr Hadfield.

Police also found a hard-drive in a wallet alongside a pair of knickers.

The judge described it as a persistent course of conduct, and told him: "It was not just a case of looking at it for temporary titilation.

"On the other side of the coin is 43 years without any stain on your character. Your friends and associates who have submitted references see the other side of your character.

"What they didn't know, and will be shocked to hear, is the dark side of your character.

"There are underlying matters and it is absolutely essential they must be dealt with in the interests of the public."