A logistics clerk who admitted publishing 83 photos of female stars in sex acts with entertainer Edison Chen Koon-hei was sentenced yesterday to two months in jail suspended for two years.
Kowloon City Court Principal Magistrate Andrew Ma Hon-cheung said he imposed a suspended jail term on Kwok Chun-wai because he committed the offence out of 'curiosity' and did not intend to cause harm to the celebrities.
Kwok is one of three men charged in relation to the celebrity nude-photos scandal that gripped the city early this year, and was the first one to be convicted.
The court heard that Kwok, 24, had downloaded 140 celebrity sex pictures from the internet and saved them to a file storage server.
He then posted 25 hyperlinks on a Hong Kong-based adult discussion forum between January 29 and February 6 to allow users to download the images.
Police arrested Kwok on February 10 at his Ngau Tau Kok home and 83 of the images were ruled obscene by the Obscene Articles Tribunal in April. Some of them showed oral sex, the court heard.