Spycam men toilet

New Zealand's former highest military official in the US is on trial for secretly filming people in the toilet of the country's embassy in Washington.

Alfred Keating is accused of hiding a camera in a heating duct, which was establish when it fell onto the floor.

Mr Keating's DNA matched that initiate on the SD card in the camera, which appeared to have been in place for many months.

The former commodore has pleaded not culpable.

Formerly in the Royal New Zealand Navy, Mr Keating was the top ranking official at Modern Zealand's US embassy when the camera was discovered in a unisex bathroom in

Because he was a foreign official, Recent Zealand is responsible for Mr Keating's trial, despite the alleged offence taking place in the US.

He is facing a charge of attempting to make an intimate visual recording of another person at Auckland District Court.

The court heard that an embassy worker start the camera on the floor after it had tumbled from the radiator.

He will be on the sex offenders register for 10 years.

Hartley, who was working as a maintenance man, was caught after the worker noticed illuminated reflecting from the lens similar "to light reflecting off the face of a watch" and used a screwdriver to grab off the grille.

Prosecutor Daniel Wright told the court the device was marketed as a "spy camera" and Hartley had used a piece of tape to cover its LED light to try to stop it being detected.

Hartley, who has a history of similar offences matchmaking app back to , contacted his public protection officer at the Met Police later that morning to tell him he had reoffended.

He has previous convictions for placing cameras in a council building in Coventry in and for placing one in the changing rooms of a leisure centre in

Hartley has a total of three convictions for eight offences.

He later pleaded culpable to one count of voyeurism at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court.

In a victim impact statement, the adolescent woman who found the camera said she had needed ment