A court has been played the moment a secret camera was discovered in the toilets of our embassy in Washington DC.
It's alleged to have been put there by our top military official in the US at the time, Alfred Keating, in an attempt to film his colleagues.
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The man who found it, Jerry Navarro, told the court on Tuesday he didn't know what it was when he spotted the box underneath a radiator.
"I assume that somebody forgot it and then I put it back I thought someone might come back to get it," he told the court.
Navarro says he placed it back on top of the heater.
A second witness, Stephen Warren, who was also working at the embassy, told the court he found the recording device where Navarro had left it and became concerned.
The court was shown security camera footage of Warren taking the device outside and showing it to his colleague Daniel Vruink.
"Once I identified it was a camera and Steve identified it, I instantly thought it should be given to someone senior at the embassy," Vruink says.
Warren then handed it over to one of the bosses.
"I told her do you mind if I close the door, I'm a little bit nervous I think I've discovered some type of recording device in the bathroom," he says.
Keating is charged with attempting to make an intimate recording of another person.
But defence lawyer Ron Mansfield says the allegation is very much denied and the evidence does not show who planted the recording camera. He says it doesn't prove it was Keating.
The trial is expected to last two weeks.
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