Serial 'upskirter' jailed seven months for insulting modesty

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Elena Chong

Court Correspondent


SINGAPORE - A serial voyeur was jailed for seven months on Monday (Nov 6) after committing more than 70 offences of insulting and attempting to insult the modesty of a woman.

Former engineer Samuel Ong Huixiang, 28, had admitted to 15 charges of intruding into the privacy of women in February 2017. Another 58 similar charges were taken into consideration in sentencing the now unemployed man.

Investigation showed that Ong had been filming upskirt videos of numerous unsuspecting women from late 2014 until August 2015.

Police arrested him in an ambush on Sept 30, 2015, and seized three electronic devices from his home at Elias Road.

Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Winston Man said that Ong's modus operandi was to hold either a mobile phone or an iPad in his hand, and switch on the video recording mode, before deliberately moving near his intended victim to record the upskirt videos.

In one case, he was sitting opposite a 25-year-old woman on the MRT train from City Hall to Pasir Ris when he recorded two videos of her without her knowledge. This happened on Aug 11, 2015.


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