A carpet cleaner caught on camera doing lewd acts at a woman's house has won permanent name suppression.
He was also ordered to carry out 100 hours' community work and 12 months' supervision when he was sentenced at Manukau District Court on charges of burglary and wilfully accessing a computer.
Judge Anna Johns heard arguments from the man's lawyer, Nicole Smith, and police lawyer Harvena Hudson over the issue of name suppression.
Judge Johns said the man suffered from a psychiatric condition and publishing his name could have a devastating impact on him.
The man was captured on hidden cameras in a sting by TV3's Target programme in May.
He was arrested after the footage aired on national television. It showed him apparently rifling through drawers of a Target television actress posing as a customer after he was called to her house to clean the carpets.
He appeared to look at photos and repeatedly touch and sniff the underwear he found in her laundry basket.
He was seen walking from room to room, taking soap from the bathroom and looking at more personal items in a spare room before turning on a computer in the living room and connecting to the internet.
He could then be seen kneeling in front of the computer.
The footage attracted over 150,000 views online after it was aired.
