A senior naval officer has been found guilty of attempting to make an intimate recording by planting a hidden camera in a toilet inside the New Zealand embassy in Washington DC.
Commodore Alfred Harold Keating was found guilty by a jury of 12 people on Thursday, following a trial at Auckland District Court.
Keating was the assistant chief of Navy at Defence headquarters in Wellington before being posted as a defence attache to the embassy in the US.
He was at the top of his career at the time and was the most senior New Zealand defence attache on foreign soil.
Keating will be sentenced on June 25, when he will find out whether he's trading his starched naval whites for a prison-issue grey tracksuit.
The camera he planted was discovered in the bathroom of the New Zealand embassy in Washington DC on July 27, 2017.
In the months leading up to its discovery, he'd searched online where to buy hidden cameras, and searched the different positions of a camera and how to set them up.
The Crown case against Keating was a circumstantial one, but one that prosecutor Henry Steele said proved Keating's guilt.
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