By Khushwant Singh
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 YPAP 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.