A FORMER police officer who filmed himself performing private sex acts with women denies he did so for his own gratification.

Jayson Lobo, 47, told a jury at Liverpool Crown Court that he would not have filmed his eight alleged victims without their consent.

Lobo, who denies 18 counts of voyeurism which are alleged to have happened between December 2011 and May 2015, also said that in instances where his alleged victims did see him recording their sexual acts they never objected to it.

Earlier in the trial, the jury had been told Lobo had stored the explicit videos and photographs on a number of phones.

When asked why he had done that Lobo, who used to work as a response officer in Preston but also had stints in Burnley, Colne and Haslingden, said it was to ensure a former girlfriend did not accidentally come across them when scrolling through images on his phone.

When asked by defence barrister Andrew Alty why he had retained a video of one of his alleged victims Lobo, of Woodfold Park, Mellor, said: “My relationship with the complainant was based very much on joking and laughing. I probably would have intended to send it to her at some point. It’s difficult for me to say what the reason was. Some of the conversations we had were very sexual due to the distance involved in the relationship. We exchanged 53,000 messages during the course of our relationship. Many of those messages were sent when we were both at home in an evening and contained sexual content.”

The court heard that when asked if he had kept the video for his own sexual gratification, Lobo said: “I can understand why somebody would think that but it absolutely wasn’t the case at all. ”

Mr Alty also asked Lobo why he hadn’t deleted a video featuring a complainant when she had allegedly asked him to.

He replied: “I intended to delete it and I just forgot about it. I can’t explain what my intention was to do with it. It was just on my phone.”

When asked about two occasions where he had set up his mobile phone camera on his bedside drawers, Lobo said both complainants were aware that it was there.

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