Times of Malta reported that he pleaded guilty to taking intimate videos of the women without their consent, and confirmed that plea after being warned he could face up to five years in prison and a fine of between €4,000 and €8,000.
The court also granted bail against a €2,000 deposit and a personal guarantee of €3,000, and issued a protection order in favour of the victim. Magistrate Abigail Critien presided. Inspector Clayton Abela prosecuted, legal aid lawyer Martina Herrera appeared for the accused, and lawyer Matthew Xuereb appeared as parte civile.
A guilty plea changes the public question. The argument is no longer about whether the act happened, but about what punishment the court considers proportionate to a violation carried out in one of the plainest private spaces a workplace has.
A changing room is not grand public property. It is a narrow, practical room where people put on a uniform, stash a bag, and assume they can be briefly unguarded. That is part of why the offence feels so mean in scale as well as in nature: it turns an ordinary room into a trap.
In pleas on sentencing, Herrera pointed to the man’s clean criminal record, his cooperation with police and the fact that he had lost his job as a result. Those are standard factors for a court to weigh. They do not cancel the other fact in the case, which is that the women involved lost something less easy to total up than employment: the basic expectation that a colleague would remain just a colleague.
The court ordered a ban on publication of the accused’s name. So the public is left with the outline of the offence, the plea, the possible penalty and the date of sentencing, but not the identity of the man who admitted it.
Sentence will be delivered on February 19.
Alex de Valletta 
Marcus Azzopardi 
Dua Mifsud