A carpet cleaner has been fired and is facing criminal charges after he was caught doing an indecent act in a TV show's hidden-camera sting.
The unnamed cleaner was filmed by TV3's Target programme rifling through the drawers of a customer - who was a Target actress - looking at her photos and repeatedly touching and sniffing multiple pairs of the woman's underwear he found in her laundry basket.
In scenes broadcast last night, he walked from room to room, taking soap from the bathroom, looking at more personal items in a spare room and turning on the computer in the living room and connecting it to the internet.
But what happened next shocked even Target. "The behaviour you're about to see is so extreme, so unprofessional, we're screening it as a cautionary tale, firstly, for home owners and, secondly, the tradespeople who think they can behave like this in clients' homes when they aren't there," host Carly Flynn said.
The man knelt in front of the computer and began masturbating into underwear which he then returned to the laundry basket.
