Upskirter stopped after seeing the news about similar crimes, but reoffended as he could not restrain himself

SINGAPORE: A serial upskirter who took illicit images of ladies since 2013 stopped his crimes briefly in late 2017, after seeing the news about different males who have been caught for upskirt images.However, he was unable to restrain himself and resumed taking such images and movies once more in August 2018. In whole, he focused 133 victims over about six years.Joseph Lee Kwong Meng, 42, was sentenced on Monday (Dec 6) to twenty-eight weeks' jail. He pleaded responsible to a few counts of insulting a lady's modesty, with one other 5 prices considered.The courtroom heard that Lee, a venture engineer, took a number of images and movies up girls's skirts and down their blouses from 2013 to 2019.He would sometimes stand behind a sufferer on an up driving escalator at a practice station and angle his cellphone up her gown, skirt or shorts. He would additionally squat down and movie up girls's skirts whereas they browsed gadgets in procuring malls.Lee would perform these offences earlier than and after his work, saving copies of the footage on his laptop computer and reviewing them afterwards.He did so from 2013 till late 2017 or early 2018, when he noticed in the news that others had been arrested for taking upskirt images, the prosecutor mentioned."He was afraid of getting caught and stopped taking such photographs and videos," she mentioned. "However, he was unable to restrain himself and started taking such upskirt photographs again in August 2018, and proceeded to reoffend numerous times thereafter."

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Lee was caught in July 2019. He boarded a practice alongside the Circle Line on the morning of Jul 4, 2019, when he seen a 25-year-old girl.Finding her engaging, he recorded a video of her face on his cellphone. The girl seen this from the reflection of the practice door.When she alighted at Bras Basah MRT Station, Lee adopted swimsuit, recording a video of her again. The girl entered the raise to go to the exit gantry, and Lee entered the raise as properly, observing her.The girl exited the gantry and took a detour from her normal route, with Lee on her tail. She went to the SMRT obligation station supervisor and advised him that Lee was following her and taking photos of her.The supervisor mentioned he would observe Lee, and the girl continued on her method, taking an up driving escalator in direction of the practice station exit. Lee stood two to a few steps behind her, holding out his cellphone to report a video of her.The station supervisor then confronted Lee at the exit and requested to see his cellphone. He discovered pictures of the girl in Lee's photograph gallery and referred to as the police.Lee was arrested later that day, with the police raiding his home and seizing his units. A complete of 360 obscene movies have been present in them.The prosecutor requested for between 32 weeks and 40 weeks' jail, noting the lengthy interval of six years over which the offences have been dedicated, save for the brief break in early 2018.There have been 133 victims concerned and Lee was caught whereas concentrating on a 134th, she mentioned.For every cost of insulting a lady's modesty, he could have been jailed for as much as a 12 months, fined, or each.