Sauce: Straits Time
Albert Lim Meng Hie, 53, was caught using a camera pen inside
his taxi to film upskirt videos. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
SHE had seen a similar device on the www.alibaba.com website and suspected
it was a camera pen. So when the cabby placed it on the arm rest
pointing at her legs, the 21-year-old undergraduate knew Albert Lim
Meng Hie was up to no good.
On Thursday, the former cabby, 54, pleaded guilty to insulting her
modesty and that of two other women in April and June 2009 by
filming their undergarments. He will be sentenced next Friday on
Jan 14.
Two more charges of filming two other victims will be taken into
consideration by the judge when passing sentence.
The court heard that the undergraduate did not confront Lim during
the journey in his taxi on the morning of June 30, 2009. Instead,
she secretly took pictures of the camera pen with her camera phone.
She showed these to police officers who found the camera pen in
Lim's apartment in a Pasir Ris condominium that very day.
Five upskirt video clips were found stored on it by officers of the
technology crime forensic branch of the Criminal Investigation
Department.
In Dec 2010, sales manager Soo Ee Hock, 35, became the first camera
pen voyeur to be convicted. The former grassroots leader was
sentenced to a total of nine months in jail on 12 counts of
shooting upskirt videos. He is appealing against the jail term and
is out on $20,000 bail.