A music teacher with a fetish for stockings who indecently filmed his students has been sentenced to five years behind bars.
Christopher Ryan Jones, 32, pleaded guilty in the WA District Court to 62 offences committed against 40 girls, aged between six and 15, who attended West Australian primary and high schools.
Jones, who used his mobile phone to film the children, will be eligible for parole after serving three years in jail and had his sentence backdated to August 2015 when he went into custody.
Jones never intended to touch or further sexually abuse his victims, his lawyer has told a Perth court.
The WA District Court heard on Tuesday that Jones filmed girls even while other adults were around, including on a bus and at a shopping centre.