A dramatic chase in Bukit Timah Plaza ended in the arrest of a South Korean man, who was caught red-handed taking upskirt videos of women at a supermarket earlier in May.
50-year-old Lee Bok Yeon has since been sentenced to jail for seven weeks for his crime of insulting a person’s modesty.
The Straits Times reports that he was caught in the perverse act when he was observed to be acting suspiciously around a young couple while shopping in a supermarket at the mall.
Lee had placed two mobile phones in his shopping basket with its camera lens facing upwards. He would then place the shopping basket near a woman’s skirt whenever she bend forward to choose vegetables.
Her boyfriend saw the whole thing and confronted Lee, grabbing the phone from the basket. During the scuffle for the phone, the boyfriend managed to pick it up from the ground and gave it to a security guard. The security guard then handed it back to Lee, who ran off with it.
He was chased down and caught by the boyfriend and members of the public — but Lee smashed his phone onto the ground. Stupidly enough, the footage was still able to be retrieved from the phone — which showed the offending upskirt clips of three other women.
In court, Lee pleaded guitly to four out of 11 charges of insulting a person’s modesty, and expressed his apologies to the victims and his family for his misdeeds.
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