43-year-old Leonard Tan Song Hui, a bank employee, pleaded guilty to 2 counts of insulting a woman’s modesty and one count of harassment, and he was sentenced to 8 months imprisonment yesterday (5 December).
He had used his phone to take almost 400 upskirt videos of women, including two videos of a man wearing women’s clothes that he thought was a woman, according to The Straits Times.
Background
Among the victims, Tan took at least 209 upskirt videos of a 39-year-old woman, as well as at least 66 videos of another 38-year-old woman.
He started taking upskirt videos in early 2018 at MRT stations and on trains, as well as around his workplace in the vicinity of Marina Bay.
He kept the videos on his phone and laptop, with more than 100 videos featuring unidentified victims.
On 5 September 2019, Tan was on his way to meet his wife for dinner when got on an escalator and took an upskirt video of a man wearing a dress that he thought was a woman.
He stood behind the man on the escalator and held his phone with the camera facing upwards into the victim’s skirt.
He was caught by an eyewitness who alerted the police, who later seized his laptop and 2 phones, where the incriminating videos were later found.