
Timothy Van Eyle leaves the ACT Courts after being found guilty of an act of indecency without consent. Photo: Albert McKnight.
The court has found a Canberra masseuse fondled a woman’s breasts as she lay at his spa.
Timothy Van Eyle admitted massaging his client’s breasts as he thought she wanted him to but denied touching her nipples or that his actions were sexual, pleading not guilty to a charge of an act of indecency without consent.
But Van Eyle now faces up to seven years in jail after Magistrate Jane Campbell found him guilty in the ACT Magistrates Court on Thursday (8 April).
Magistrate Campbell outlined her decision by summarising the evidence from both sides, saying Van Eyle’s client went to his Civic spa in January…