A Malaysian man in Singapore has been sentenced to a year in jail after taking 203 upskirt videos in public spaces, without the consent or knowledge of his victims. Although this is reportedly one of the longest sentences given for this type of crime, it actually works out to about 1.65 days in jail per video. The maximum sentence for insulting modesty is 1 year, plus a fine. There were 99 other charges considered during his trial.
Thirty-three-year old Malaysian chef, Thian Kit Siong, was found guilty 4 May. He had been preying on his victims at his work place, the shopping center where it was located, and at City Hall MRT station.
His modus operandi, according to deputy public posecutor Jasmine Chin-Sabado, was to go to the basement level of the shopping centres and look for young women in skirts. Upon finding a victim, he would switch his phone to record video, and stand either beside or behind his victim. He would then turn his mobile phone upside down so that the lens was pointing up, and place it between victims’ legs to film.
He was caught 14 June, after a woman shopping in a grocery store became suspicious of his behaviour, and reported it to her husband. They approached the man, he gave chase, but was stopped by an off-duty police officer.
His phone was then found to contain 203 illicit videos, and he was arrested. That’s a lot of memory space, creep.
