A woman who was allegedly the target of a secret camera set up by her student boarder is "terrified'' now the man is on bail.
The 22-year-old defendant appeared in the Dunedin District Court yesterday charged with making an intimate visual recording and stealing $200 of underwear from the woman, with whom he had stayed for more than three years.
The Otago Polytechnic student was granted interim name suppression by Judge Michael Turner and given bail despite vehement opposition from the complainant's father, who made his antipathy clear during the hearing.
Outside court, he told the Otago Daily Times his daughter, who lived in her Dunedin home with her three young children, was distraught and had been unable to sleep since finding a "wee button camera'' on Friday aimed at the toilet.
The woman had gone to get toilet paper from under the hot-water cylinder and found the recording device on top of a bucket.
