VIDEO clips of women from three secretly-shot films seized by police looking for a Peeping Tom were shown to a jury yesterday.

One woman is filmed in a bikini on a pontoon in the middle of a lake, Worcester Crown Court heard.

Another woman, also bikini-clad and lying in a deckchair sunbathing, was filmed through a hedge.

A third woman is seen only from the waist down with the camera focusing up her skirt.

The clips were discovered among a stash of 57 camcorder tapes after police officers searched the home of married Christopher Physouni, who is a father-of-two.

It is alleged that he climbed up to a teenager’s bedroom window in the village where he lived to spy on her.

But the alleged Peeping Tom’s ladder was spotted up against the wall by her family and the man fled, the crown court jury was told by prosecutor Paul Whitfield.

Physouni, of Old Pool Cottage, Stoney Lane, Earls Common, near Droitwich, has denied the charge of attempted voyeurism.

Mr Whitfield claimed the film clips show the defendant had “a propensity” for secretly filming females. The first film was taken in September 2001 and ends when the woman gets into the water for a swim.

Physouni, aged 46, told police it could have been him behind the camera, but he did not remember.

The second camcorder film was shot at a neighbour’s house while the defendant was living in another part of the country in June 2003.

Physouni denied that he had carried out the recording.

The third clip is shot at a wildlife park. Physouni told police that he did not “knowingly” film up the woman’s skirt. Police accused him of having a liking for filming people without their knowledge, the jury heard.

Other films had showed him secretly filming his wife taking a shower.

Upon being told that he was a suspect in the Peeping Tom court case Physouni denied he was the culprit and said: “I find it thoroughly disgusting and abhorrent. If there’s one thing I can’t abide it’s preying on children.”

Physouni claimed that he was looking after his own children at the time on September 24 when he heard a commotion outside his home.

But he admitted to police that he had drunk a bottle of wine and half a bottle of whisky while his wife was on a night out.

The teenager gave evidence that she closed her bedroom curtains while she got changed.

No one has identified Physouni as the man on the ladder. The trial continues.