Anger as Adelaide prison guard given suspended sentence for filming jail visitors on the toilet

An Adelaide prison guard who hid a camera in the visitors toilet has been fined and given a suspended sentence.

Andrew Michael Jelly, 49, has pleaded guilty to six counts of indecent filming, one relating to a minor, and to delivering a prohibited item to a prisoner.

He was given a suspended one-year sentence with a five-month non-parole period in the Adelaide Magistrates Court today.

He was also fined $2800 for having a key ring with a digital recorder hidden in it and porn mags and DVDs in his work locker. 

The 28-year corrections veteran was arrested in September last year after young mother Tiniesh Hibbert discovered the self-powered USB camera in the visitors toilet at the Adelaide Remand Centre.

Jelly's lawyer argued that because she was not recorded by the camera, she did not fit the legal definition of "victim".