Overview
- Special Magistrate Lucinda Wilson granted the 20-year-old strict bail that requires living under parental supervision in Queensland, surrendering his passport, and avoiding devices that can record or access the internet.
- Tain Stephens faces five counts of capturing intimate visual data after prosecutors alleged he hid a camera inside a soap dispenser in a shared shower to film female cadets.
- Investigators said they found a wireless transmitter, a camera, an SD card, and a power bank, and they reported identifying about 40,000 files across seized devices.
- The court heard that 17 soap dispensers across the Australian Defence Force Academy had been tampered with in the same way, though only one recording device was found.
- Reporting from the hearing said Stephens was suspended from ADFA, had drawn military police attention in early 2025, and is due back in court in July as police indicated more charges could follow.