Airman’s secret exposed

An airman found guilty of supplying meth admitted in a different court weeks earlier to secretly filming himself having sex with a woman.

Aircraftman Morgan Robert Davies pleaded guilty to drug charges, at a court martial at O¯ hakea Air Force Base on Monday.

He denied taking, supplying or trying to buy meth.

Yesterday, he was sentenced to a year’s detention at Burnham Military Camp prison and kicked out of the military for the charges he admitted and two he was found guilty of – offering meth and consuming meth.

The 23-year-old pleaded guilty in the Palmerston North District Court in January to making an intimate visual recording without consent.

He was ordered to pay his victim $5000 emotional-harm reparation and serve four months’ community detention.

In December 2016, he was invited to the victim’s house. At some point, knowing sex was on the cards, he hid his cellphone on a dresser in her bedroom.

It was pointed at the bed and set to record.

Davies captured an explicit 25-minute video of the pair.

Police would also later discover an edited version of the video, with the woman’s face clearly visible, when they confiscated his laptop.

The file was named ‘‘I’ll keep you my dirty little secret’’, the chorus to a 2005 pop song.

In a victim-impact statement the woman said one of the worst things about it was Davies knew she would never agree to be recorded having sex.

So, he just didn’t ask.

The phone used to record the illicit video was air force-issued and Davies had returned it.

The judge at that court hearing said she trusted the air force had already deleted the video from the phone.

Prosecutor Ben Vanderkolk told the court martial yesterday that Davies’ conviction for drugs was the first of its kind in New Zealand military history for the supply of a Class A drug.

He said the offending of making an intimate visual recording without consent happened at the same time as Davies’ drug offending.

Aircraftman Cameron Fairbank was sentenced to 18 weeks’ detention at Burnham Military Camp Prison and dismissed after pleading guilty to two charges of offering to supply MDMA and a charge of trying to buy MDMA from Davies.

He was found not guilty of trying to buy meth off Davies.