A local man was arrested last week for taking upskirts of a woman in a supermarket in Taipa on Friday, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Choi Iok Kin said at a press briefing yesterday.
The suspect, surnamed Lei in his forties, told the police that he works as an engineer.
According to Choi, a woman in her thirties reported to the police on Friday that a man took upskirts of her in a supermarket in Rua de Nam Keng in Taipa earlier that day. She told the police that when she was shopping in the supermarket, she suddenly felt something touching her leg, after which she turned around to check what was going on. She discovered that a man was filming her with his smartphone. She stopped the man and told him to give her the smartphone so she could check. The man quickly scrolled his smartphone’s photo album. When she told the man that she would call the police, he ran away.
Choi said PSP officers scrutinised CCTV footage of the supermarket as well as from the nearby area and identified Lei. The officers arrested Lei at his home in Rua de Bragança in Taipa on the same day. Under questioning, Lei admitted to upskirting the woman because of a sudden sexual impulse and claimed that he had deleted the woman’s clip from his smartphone. However, the officers found on Lei’s smartphone four upskirt videos of four other women.
Lei was transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) on Saturday, facing an invasion of privacy charge, according to Choi.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows the upskirting suspect being escorted by PSP officers to a PSP vehicle in Taipa.
