Overview

• Mena pleaded guilty to three counts of secretly filming his female housemates without consent using a pen-shaped camera hidden in their communal bathroom.
• Magistrate Michael Barko imposed a nine-month intensive community corrections order and issued a two-year apprehended violence order barring him from contacting the victims.
• Cleaners discovered the pen camera in early February, accessed its storage card and handed the device to the landlord, who reported it to police.
• Police seized Mena’s laptop and found folders named after each victim containing intimate footage, as well as a recording showing him setting up the camera.
• Court documents reveal Mena’s temporary bridging visa was due to expire at his arrest and he has expressed his intention to return to Chile, leaving his future in Australia uncertain.