A MAN hid in a changing room and filmed two women undressing at a community pool, a court heard.

Jurors have been told that Adam Wright, 39, held his Samsung phone under the walls of two changing rooms at Oaklands Community Pool before quickly deleting any evidence.

Mr Wright, of Wimpson Lane, Southampton, denies two charges of voyeurism.

Prosecuting, Mike Mason said two women spotted a phone appear near their feet while they were getting changed.

Opening the trial at Southampton Crown Court, Mr Mason said: “Two women were using the unisex changing facility and were changing inside individual cubicles at the pool.

“The first woman was getting changed and taking her clothes off, she saw a mobile phone being held from the next-door cubicle.

“She thought there was a person taking pictures or filming her while in a state of undress.

“She told (a woman), after she left the cubicle, who went on to inform the assistant manager of the pool.

“Another woman also saw a phone come under her cubicle wall while she was getting undressed.”

CCTV footage of the changing room on that day was shown to the court, and the assistant manager was seen knocking on the door of the cubicle Wright was in.

She repeatedly asked him to come out, Mr Mason said.

The video shows he did not emerge for four minutes.

Mr Mason said: “The Crown say that it is suspicious for Wright to take so long to come out of the cubicle.

“I would suggest he was deleting all the footage he had taken from his phone.”

He told the court how Mr Wright eventually exited the cubicle and showed his phone, claiming there were no photos or video.

The court heard how he was arrested by police two days later and several electronic devices, including the Samsung phone, were seized.

Mr Wright, however, refused to provide the PIN code and passwords to the devices, Mr Mason said.

He added: “If there was nothing of interest on that phone, why did Wright not provide the PIN number for police to assess it? We say that points to his blame.”

The trial continues.