Ex-NUS student jailed for taking upskirt videos

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A man was sentenced to six weeks' jail today for taking up-skirt videos and attempting to film women in changing rooms.

Liow Yaw Vwee, 25, had pleaded guilty to one charge of insulting the modesty of a woman and two charges of attempting to insult the modesty of a woman.

Then a student in the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore, Liow tried to use his mobile phone to film a woman trying on clothes in the changing rooms of a garment shop at Parkway Parade Shopping Centre on April 8, 2010.

1) The unisex changing rooms were not totally covered as partitions between the cubicles extended only to calf level.

As the woman bent down to get her clothing and bag, she spotted a hand holding a mobile phone at an angle aiming into her cubicle. She reported the incident to the shop.

2) On April 19, Liow returned to the shop and went into the changing room with three shirts. A staff on duty recognised Liow as a peeping tom from the earlier incident.

She called him out of the changing room upon observing that he had put his haversack on the floor with a black and orange rectangular box on top of it. He had cut a small hole on the box and inserted his mobile phone.

Liow admitted that he had intended to take photographs or videos of women undressing but did not press the record button as he was afraid of getting caught.

3) On another occasion on Aug 11, 2010, Liow used his mobile phone to record an up-skirt video of a woman as he stood behind her on an ascending escalator at Vivocity Shopping Mall.

Six other charges of filming up-skirt videos were also taken into consideration in the sentence passed.

The maximum penalty for insulting the modesty of a woman is one year's jail and a fine on each charge.