A young Thai man of high-standing sunk to a low place when he was arrested this week at a London Topshop store shooting video under the skirts of unsuspecting female shoppers at the popular chain store.
Pratyayoud Tupchareon, 27, was spotted by security acting suspiciously and following women around the store while not appearing to shop for any clothing. His father is parliament member Youdtana Tupchareon while his mother, Jutipon Tupchareon, is a Bangkok judge.
Pratyayoud lives in London and has been studying at the city’s private Regent’s University. He was due to start postgraduate work shortly at Westminster University, also in London, reported Daily Mail.
Store security noticed that the man kept putting his backpack on the floor near women for no immediately apparent reason.
He was caught with a long lens sticking out of his backpack that he had been using to film several women, as was apparent by the footage on his device. He had filmed three women in Topshop alone, as well as video shot outside the store. He said he was inspired by YouTube videos of upskirt videos but that he had no channel himself and that he did not plan to share the footage with others.
District Judge Elizabeth Roscoe heard the case today where the defendant apologized to the court with his parents by his side, who had flown in to support their son.
Roscoe said, “What on earth was he thinking? Why was he doing it?” When she addressed the defendant directly, she said, “Mr. Tupchareon, I don’t know what you were thinking, you’re 27 years old, you’re not a child. You are extremely lucky that you have a very supportive family but this is your responsibility and it was outrageous behavior — unpleasant, disrespectful, and potentially, deeply offensive.”
Though she accepted his apology, she also said that he had to pay the price for his actions.
He pled guilty to outraging public decency and was sentenced to a ban from Westminster, a large borough of central London for four months and made to wear a police monitor. He will also have a curfew of 7pm for six weeks and be made to pay a victim charge of GBP85 per woman he filmed.
Pratyayoud had to defer his impending postgrad course since he in not allowed in the section of the city where the university is for four months.
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