Blaming problems with his marriage and issues with anxiety, a former high-flying doctor has admitted to taking up-skirt videos of five women during an hour-long spree of furtive filming at a Kowloon Tong shopping mall.
Former chief medical officer for the Government Flying Service, Woo Wing-keung, 51, was caught in September 2016 using his mobile phone to film up the skirt of a 27-year-old woman ascending in front of him on escalator at Festival Walk.
The man who spotted the now-disgraced doctor — the victim’s boyfriend — was an off-duty police officer, who demanded Woo hand over his phone.
After he obliged, the officer found on Woo’s phone upskirt videos from four other women that were taken in hour before he was exposed, Apple Daily reports.
Woo pleaded guilty to committing an act outraging public decency at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
In mitigation, lawyers representing Woo said he committed the act because of his anxiety, did not do it for sexual pleasure, and that his chances of re-offending were low.
They said that after the incident, Woo sought help from a psychiatrist who formally diagnosed him with anxiety, stemming from the breakdown in his marriage, pressure at work, and his diabetes.
The court heard that Woo has since left the Hospital Authority, now works as a part-time doctor at a clinic, and is heavily-involved with volunteer work.
Although defence lawyers said Woo felt remorse, the magistrate said he failed to apologise to the victims.
Sentencing will take place on May 3.
