Dad angry after girls are filmed in street

He told the Gazette that he was particularly incensed because the incident happened days after the discovery of the bodies of missing Cambridgeshire schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

The girls who are students at St John's School, Marlborough, were walking in the High Street about four weeks ago when they noticed a man pointing a camcorder in their direction.

As they walked towards their home on the Portfields estate, they claimed the man followed them in a red car and continued filming them.

The elder sister recorded the car registration number on her mobile phone and when the girls got home their father called the police.

A Marlborough policewoman interviewed both girls but then the family heard no more, claimed the father.

When he contacted the police station a couple of weeks later he was told the policewoman had been on holiday but that she had traced and interviewed the man, a 24-year-old from Marlborough, who the girls claimed had been filming them.

The father told the Gazette: "The policewoman said she had spoken to the man but that he had broken no laws and she was unable to do any more.

"She said he was getting married soon and all she could do was give him a 'gypsy's warning'."

The father, who does not want his girls identified, said: "I am very worried because you hear of these things which have been happening with girls in other parts of the country."

Sgt Martyn Sweett confirmed that one of his officers had investigated the incident but had established that no law had been broken.

He said the officer had interviewed the man who said he had been filming generally in the town centre and had not realised the two girls were being recorded.

"No offences, as far as we can establish, have been committed," said Sgt Sweett who added: "We can appreciate the father's concern."

He said 'appropriate advice' had been given to the man.

The charity ChildLine said it had not come across a similar case before and could not comment.