A FORMER finance director who took almost 700 covert videos of colleagues has been spared jail.

Mark Logan, 48, planted spy cameras hidden in digital clocks at the Wheatley Group headquarters on Cochrane Street, where he was previously employed. 

Between May 2015 and 2016, along with filming in his workplace, Logan also made secret recordings while on business trips in London and at Edinburgh's George Hotel.

As previously reported, Logan, of Tweedsmuir Crescent in Bearsden, pleaded guilty to the charges of voyeurism and sexual assault and appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court this morning to be sentenced before Sheriff Joseph Platt. 

He also pleaded guilty to sexual assaulting someone by rubbing them in a sexual manner while they were asleep, without their consent, in 2014.

The court heard Logan's crimes had "one intended victim" and other incidental victims. 

Advocate Anthony Graham, Logan's solicitor, told the court his client had "essentially given up his entire career" as a result of his crimes. 

He said: "As a chartered accountant in the public sector he was in receipt of a substantial six-figure salary and pension rights.

"He goes from that place to a disciplinary hearing with the Institute of Chartered Accountants, which may not end his career totally but will certainly diminish it."

Mr Graham said Logan had been working with a psychologist for "the best part of a year" on "self analysis" and added: "He has taken it upon himself from the outset in facing up to this." 

Sheriff Platt handed down a two year supervision order, meaning Logan will have to comply with strict social work rules, attending meetings regularly and working with psychologists. 

He will also have to comply with notification requirements of being placed on the sex offenders register. 

The Sheriff said: "My primary concern [is] the protection of the public and anyone else who may become a victim of your behaviour.

"The steps you took to renounce your employment have had a devastating effect on you and your family and I don't think a further punitive element is required.

"There was one intended victim and incidental victims of this offence." 

The Sheriff told Logan if he breached the conditions of his supervision he "would reconsider custody" and asked for a review hearing in six months to monitor Logan's progress.