A 30-year-old local man was arrested on Wednesday for taking photographs of a male in the men’s toilet of a lockerroom on Rua de Francisco Xavier Pereira, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a regular press conference on Friday.
The suspect surnamed Lam told the police that he works as a clerk.
According to the spokesperson, a local man in his thirties reported to the police on Wednesday that when he was using the toilet of the lockerroom on that day, he noticed Lam holding a mobile phone and looking around, adding that he did not take much notice of Lam at first until he saw that Lam was still wandering around with his mobile phone, even after he (the victim) had finished hawing a shower and got dressed. Suspecting foul play, the victim went to ask Lam what he was doing, Lam admitted on the spot to surreptitiously taking photos of him to satisfy his “hobby”. The shocked victim called the police.
The spokesperson said that PSP officers quickly arrived at the scene and arrested Lam. The officers later found on Lam’s mobile phone nine clips of the victim using the toilet and another 104 videos that were of the private parts of males in different public toilets that Lam had taken.
Under questioning, Lam admitted that all the clips had been covertly filmed since March last year as it was his “hobby”, the spokesperson noted, who added that Lam has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing an invasion of privacy charge.
This undated pixelated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) on Friday shows the suspected peeping tom being escorted by a PSP officer from the No. 2 Police Station to a PSP vehicle.
