A local man in his sixties sexually harassed a local woman on three occasions in the same street between December last year and early this month, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.
The suspect surnamed Wong told the police that he is jobless.
According to the spokesperson, the victim in her twenties only reported the incidents to the police on Tuesday after the man touched her thigh for the third time because when the man touched her on the first and second occasions, she thought that he merely carelessly touched her.
On the three occasions, according to the spokesperson, the man suddenly touched the woman’s buttocks and thigh when walking past her in Estrada do Repouso (鏡湖馬路).
On the third occasion, the spokesperson said, the man touched the woman again on Tuesday, but this time she realised that he deliberately touched her to sexually harass her, including the previous two times, because of which she decided to report the case to the police, after which PSP officers arrived at the scene to arrest him.
The man has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) facing a sexual harassment charge.
Police bust illegal mahjong parlour in Iao Hon
Meanwhile, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during yesterday’s press conference that the police busted an illegal mahjong parlour in Iao Hon district on Tuesday.
The police raided the parlour, located in a unit of a shopping centre, on Tuesday night after an investigation, which was launched after the police received a tip-off last month.
According to the spokesperson, the police intercepted a 55-year-old local woman who was hired to operate the parlour for a payment of 16,000 patacas per month. The parlour had been operating since September last year. The person, whose gender was not revealed, who had hired the woman was still at large at the time of yesterday afternoon’s press conference.
This undated handout photo released by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows a police officer escorting the sexual harassment suspect to a police station in the northern district.
