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He took 57 upskirt videos
JAILED: Benjamin Chow, a married man with two sons, took upskirt videos of women at various locations in Singapore. (Inset) A Sony Ericsson K700i.
Photo: The Straits Times
Ronald Loh
Saturday, Feb 27, 2016
He was a married man with two sons, but it did not stop him from taking upskirt videos of 57 unsuspecting women over a year.
A passer-by saw what he was doing and helped nab him in April 2013.
But Benjamin Chow Tuck Keong, 52, a self-employed businessman, was charged in court only in September last year.
Chow had thrown away the charging cable of his Sony Ericsson K700i mobile phone, a model released in 2004, and the police had a hard time finding the right cable to access the videos.
Yesterday, three years after his arrest, Chow was jailed for six months for his upskirt offences.
Court papers said that Chow was at Newton MRT station on April 3, 2013, when he preyed on an unknown woman.
He stood behind her on the escalator, which was going up, and placed his mobile phone on his left thigh with the camera lens facing upwards.
He positioned his mobile phone below the woman’s skirt, filming her inner thighs and underwear.
Chow did not realise a passer-by was watching him.
The passer-by later approached the woman and told her what had happened.
He also called the police and they tailed Chow to Barker Road, where the man and some security officers of a nearby school arrested Chow.
The woman left the scene before the police arrived.
After Chow was arrested, he submitted his phone to the police, but not the charging cable, Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Andre Chong said.
DPP Chong added that when the authorities asked him for the charging cable, which was no longer available in the market, Chow claimed he had thrown it away.
The phone had run out of battery, so the police could not extract the videos.
Because it was an outdated phone, the forensics team had to source for the charging cable and this took time, DPP Chong told the court.
He said the forensics team eventually managed to extract the videos and produced the evidence after two years.
The authorities found a total of 57 videos, filmed between April 2012 and April 2013 at various locations in Singapore, on his phone.
None of the women’s identities could be established, court papers said.
Yesterday, Chow pleaded guilty to 10 counts of insulting a woman’s modesty, with 47 charges taken into consideration for sentencing.
The judge allowed Chow to defer his sentence to March 24 to settle some business contracts.
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