ant was sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court in July following a trial lasting more than two weeks.

She was convicted of ten charges of making child pornography and another charge of possessing 147 indecent images of children. Foxall had helped her late husband Martin secretly film young girls as they bathed before and after pool parties held at the family home in Sadler Road, Brownhills.

Foxall prepared baths for the girls while her husband Martin, who committed suicide after being quizzed by police, secretly recorded them over an eight-year period using carefully concealed cameras.

Foxall maintained throughout her trial that she did not know her husband was making the films, but the jury ruled that the couple had worked as a team.

Her solicitor David Coles lodged an appeal against the sentence, describing it as “excessive”.

But a spokesman at the Royal Courts of Justice confirmed: “The appeal has been dismissed.”

The 43-year-old mother of a teenage girl filmed by the Foxalls said: “It’s absolutely great news. The kids can have a good Christmas now, knowing that she’s still going to be locked up. The next thing will be to try and stop her moving back into the area when she is released.

“She tried to say that the public was behind her, but they are not. We have got petitions up about her not coming back to the area and nearly everybody has signed them.”

Children filmed by the Foxalls went to Bloxwich police station on Monday to prepare a joint statement in which they urged the Court of Appeal not to reduce the sentence.