Taxi Driver Nabbed For Taking Upskirt Pic in Cab with SpyPen
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Sauce: Straits Time
Albert Lim Meng Hie, 53, was caught using a camera pen inside his taxi to film upskirt videos. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
SHE had seen a similar device on the www.alibaba.com website and suspected it was a camera pen. So when the cabby placed it on the arm rest pointing at her legs, the 21-year-old undergraduate knew Albert Lim Meng Hie was up to no good.
On Thursday, the former cabby, 54, pleaded guilty to insulting her modesty and that of two other women in April and June 2009 by filming their undergarments. He will be sentenced next Friday on Jan 14.
Two more charges of filming two other victims will be taken into consideration by the judge when passing sentence.
The court heard that the undergraduate did not confront Lim during the journey in his taxi on the morning of June 30, 2009. Instead, she secretly took pictures of the camera pen with her camera phone. She showed these to police officers who found the camera pen in Lim's apartment in a Pasir Ris condominium that very day.
Five upskirt video clips were found stored on it by officers of the technology crime forensic branch of the Criminal Investigation Department.
In Dec 2010, sales manager Soo Ee Hock, 35, became the first camera pen voyeur to be convicted. The former grassroots leader was sentenced to a total of nine months in jail on 12 counts of shooting upskirt videos. He is appealing against the jail term and is out on $20,000 bail.