A young local man stealthily took videos of three women in a women’s toilet in a commercial building in Zape last week “on a sexual impulse”, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Kam Ka Kit said during a regular press conference on Friday.
Kam identified the suspect as a 23-year-old surnamed Tang who told the police that he works as a repairman.
According to Kam, the case came to light after the police received a report from one of the three women on Wednesday evening last week who told the police that she went into the toilet on the 15th floor of the commercial building in Avenida do Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues at 4:40 p.m. When she looked up while using the toilet, she saw a man peeping at her from the next cubicle.
The 24-year-old local woman quickly came out of her cubicle in an attempt to stop the man but he ran away. She reported the case to the police.
Before Tang was discovered by the 24-year-old, he had taken video clips of two other women in the toilet. Neither discovered or were aware of Tang’s peeping Tom activities.
After scrutinising the commercial building’s CCTV footage and the police forces’ citywide CCTV camera system, PSP officers identified Tang as the suspected peeping Tom, Kam said.
The officers saw that after leaving the commercial building, Tang caught a taxi, and then got out of the taxi in Avenida da Concórdia – an avenue running through Fai Chi Kei to Ilha Verde, Kam said.
The police assumed that Tang lives near the avenue and put the neighbourhood under surveillance, before catching him in the avenue at around 11 p.m. on the same day, according to Kam.
Under questioning, Tang admitted to surreptitiously taking video clips of the three women, including the 24-year-old, in the afternoon that day while they were using the toilet, Kam said.
Tang told the police that he went to an office on the 15th floor of the commercial building “to do something” in the afternoon that day. After Tang left the office he saw the first victim and became sexually aroused so he furtively followed her into the floor’s public toilet and took a video clip of her while she was using the toilet, according to Kam.
Afterwards, Tang went into the building’s stairwell and watched the video clip that he had taken on his smartphone. After watching the video clip, Tang said, he deleted it and then looked for his next target, according to Kam.
Later Tang took a video clip of the second victim in the cubicle, before he was discovered by the 24-year-old.
Tang told the police that each of the first two victims’ clips lasted four or five seconds. Tang had stayed on the floor for two hours after leaving the office, before he was discovered by the woman who reported the case to the police, according to Kam.
PSP officers went to Tang’s home where they checked his smartphone and his computer. The officers did not find any video clips showing women using a toilet on either device, but seized the clothes that he was wearing when he committed the crime, Kam said.
Tang has been transferred to the Public Prosecution Office (MP) for further questioning, facing an invasion of privacy charge.
This undated handout photo released by the Public Security Police (PSP) on Friday shows a PSP officer escorting the suspected peeping Tom to the PSP headquarters in Zape.
