An alert 21-year-old undergraduate exposed taxi driver Albert
Lim Meng Hie for filming upskirt videos of his female passengers
with a hidden camera.
According to The Straits Times,
the university student saw a similar device on online
marketplace Alibaba.com and
suspected it was a camera
pen. When the 54-year-old cabby placed it on
an arm rest pointing at her legs, she knew that he was up
to no good.
On Thursday, the former taxi driver pleaded guilty to insulting
her modesty and that of two other women in April and June 2009 by
filming their undergarments.
The court heard that the undergraduate did not directly confront
Lim during the taxi ride on the morning of June 30, 2009. Instead,
she quietly took pictures of the camera pen with her camera
phone.
She then showed these pictures to police offers who found the
camera pen in Lim’s apartment in a Pasir Ris condominium that same
day.
Officers of the technology crime forensic branch of the Criminal Investigation
Department found five upskirt video clips stored in the
camera pen.
This is not the first time a camera pen has been used to
commit such crimes.
35-year-old sales manager Soo Ee Hock was the first camera pen
voyeur to be convicted in December last year.
He was sentenced to nine months in jail on 12 counts of shooting
upskirt videos. The former grassroots leader is out on S$20,000
bail and is appealing against the jail term.
Lim will be sentenced next Friday on January 14. The judge will
take into consideration two more charges of filming two other
victims when passing the sentence.
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