WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A naval commodore who served as New Zealand’s senior military attache to the United States was found guilty Thursday of planting a hidden camera in a bathroom at the embassy in Washington. A jury in the Auckland District Court deliberated for four-and-a-half hours before finding 59-year-old Commodore Alfred Harold Keating guilty on a charge of attempting to make an intimate visual recording. Crown prosecutor Henry Steele, in his final address to the jury, said Keating was an “absurdly unlucky” man if he was innocent of the charge. Keating’s personal laptop had at one time been connected to a Brickhouse Security camera and he had made Google searches about how to set up and position the camera. Defence counsel Ron Mansfield said the “low copy number DNA test,” which was used to find Keating’s DNA on the SD card, was not used in some overseas jurisdictions because of the high-risk of contamination.

Source: National Post April 18, 2019 04:32 UTC