Jailed for insulting modesty

[Sauron]

Oct 18, 2010
Jailed for insulting modesty

By Elena Chong, Court Correspondent

A COFFEESHOP supervisor was jailed for one month on Monday for hiding a mobile phone in an empty shampoo container to record a video of a woman showering in the toilet.

Poh Cher Boon, 51, had earlier admitted to two charges of insulting the modesty of a 29-year-old foreign worker showering on Feb 7 and 8 last year. A court heard that Poh had bought the cellphone a day earlier and came up with the idea of using it to video record the victim, a coffeeshop assistant, in the shower.

On Feb 7, he went to the apartment which he had access to and concealed the mobile phone in the empty shampoo container in the kitchen toilet. He then left and returned that evening to retrieve the shampoo container and the cellphone. He later viewed the video he had captured of the victim in the shower at his home.

As the video was not clear enough, he repeated his act the next day. Subsequently, the victim's housemates found the mobile phone while using the bathroom. Another similar charge and two of using insulting behaviour to cause harassment to three others were considered. Poh could have been jailed for up one year or fined or jailed and fined.

 

[Dian Wei]

Jailed for filming woman in shower


Oct 19, 2010
Jailed for filming woman in shower

By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent

Poh Cher Boon, 51, hid a cellphone in an empty shampoo container to record video footage of a woman showering.

A COFFEE shop supervisor concealed his mobile phone in an empty shampoo container to record video footage of a woman showering in the toilet. When Poh Cher Boon, 51, an undischarged bankrupt, found that the footage was not clear enough, he repeated the act the next day.

Yesterday, the father of four was jailed for one month after he pleaded guilty to two counts of insulting the modesty of the 29-year-old foreign worker at her apartment on Feb 7 and 8 last year. The victim, who worked as a coffee shop assistant, was sharing the unit with three others, one female and two male. Poh, as the supervisor, had access to the place.

The court heard Poh bought the cellphone used in the crime just a day before, on Feb 6. He went to the apartment on the evening of Feb7 and hid the phone in the bathroom. It was not revealed in court how the phone could record images through a shampoo bottle. He returned later in the night to retrieve the phone, which he took home to view the video footage he had captured.