James Dyson, 42, of Albany Court, St. Albans Road, Sutton also had a collection of child pornography, which was seized during a pre-planned police raid on the home he shared with his partner and two children.
He was sentenced at Croydon Crown Court yesterday to ten months imprisonment, suspended for two years.
Dyson must also complete 120 hours community service work, plus a 30-day rehabilitation activity requirement and a 35-day accredited programme.
He was made subject to a ten-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order; must sign the sex offenders register for ten years and pay £500 costs.
Dyson pleaded guilty to five counts of outraging public decency, namely recording 'upskirt' images of women, on or before March 11, last year and two counts of making indecent images of children.
Police executed a warrant at his home on March 11, 2019 and during their search seized a Galaxy Samsung phone on which they found six Category B still images and twenty-one Category C images of children aged five to ten years-old.
On an iPhone police found five two to three minutes clips of 'upskirting'.
“He had filmed unsuspecting women up their skirts and they seemed to be in toilets and on trains and public transport,” said prosecutor Mr. Bill McGivern.
“He can be seen in the clips and the women have not been identified. They are often on stairwells and the camera may have been concealed in some sort of bag.”
When quizzed by police first-time offender Dyson expressed “deep regret and remorse and shame.”
Dyson's lawyer Michael Philips told the court: “Pornography became his drug of choice throughout his adult life.”
The father-of-two had toured the globe as a musician before a change of career in the City as an Account Manager responsible for sales.
“The pressure to make sales and wine and dine clients in the City of London was immense, doing seventy to eighty hours a week.”
Dyson has split with his wife and now lives with his father.
Judge Elizabeth Lowe told Dyson: “You took the upskirting images and all seem to be at railway and tube stations, behaviour that makes women be concerned about how they travel around.
“These are not victimless crimes. These women were entitled to go about their business without being subject to this behaviour.”
Regarding the child pornography the judge told Dyson: “You are a father of a young boy and girl. It is abhorrent you looked at those images.”
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