Women want man who secretly filmed them named
Victims are adamant that they want a man who secretly videoed them to be publicly named, but the issue will go to a hearing in a fortnight.
Interim suppression was granted for the man when he admitted three charges in the Christchurch District Court of secretly making intimate visual recordings.
The charges relate to images taken of three women.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Paul Scott said all the women were adamant that they wanted the man to be named, and the issue had been set down to be argued in court today after his guilty pleas.
However, a lawyer for a relative of the man then stood up and said he wished the name suppression to continue because of how it would impact on his own circumstances.
The 59-year-old man used gaps in the floorboards and a two-way mirror in a house that was being renovated, to take images of three women in a bathroom at different times. He also removed ducting from an extraction vent so that he could take photographs.
When he was confronted by a woman, photographs were found on his cellphone, and the police then checked his three cellphones, a laptop computer, and two portable hard-drives.
When police interviewed him, he admitted taking photographs of all of the victims without their knowledge.
Judge Tony Couch decided that a hearing should be scheduled for July 2 for the suppression order to be argued, and the existing order would continue in the meantime.
The man has also been remanded on bail for sentencing on September 18. The three women have provided victim impact statements and a restorative justice conference may be held ahead of the sentencing.
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