A Hong Kong teenager dressed in a black lace dress and high heel
boots was caught taking snaps of women in a public toilet, a press
report said on Thursday.
The 17-year-old was also wearing a long-haired wig when he was
cornered in a toilet of a karaoke bar after a woman discovered he
was using his mobile phone to take pictures of her, the
Chinese-language newspaper Apple Daily said.
The teenager, surnamed Lam, had sneaked into the women's toilets at
around 2am on Wednesday and hidden in one of the cubicles. Holding
his camera-mounted mobile phone over the partitions, he took
pictures of women in the next loo, the paper said.
Lam was only found out when one woman heard a "strange noise" made
by his mobile phone. As he tried to make his escape, another woman
walked into the bathroom, forcing him to run back and lock himself
in the cubicle.
He was arrested by police and detained for further investigations,
the paper said.
According to police figures, there have been 41 similar incidents
so far this year, up from 12 last year.
