Married doctor caught taking upskirt photos avoids being struck off general register, Hong Kong Medical Council hears

A married anaesthesiologist convicted of taking “upskirt photos” of a woman avoided being struck off the general register this morning when his sentence to be removed from it for four months was suspended for one year, the Medical Council heard.

Dr Chiang Sing-hoi, who was formerly registered as James Chiang Chi-sum, was convicted at Eastern Court on January 21 last year of behaving in a disorderly manner in a public place and resisting a police officer in the due execution of his duty. He was sentenced to an 18-month probation order.

In February 2013, Chiang was caught by two undercover police officers placing a black handbag under a woman student’s skirt close to Bonham Road in Sai Wan. Officers found three cameras in Chiang’s handbag and underskirt photos on the cameras.

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Chiang did not attend the hearing this morning and was represented by his solicitor Chris Howse.

In mitigation, Howse said it was Chiang’s first offence. He said he had completed the probation order in July and had no psychological or psychiatric problems. Chiang also showed remorse and stopped using a mobile phone with a camera function afterwards.

He said Chiang was under great stress before the offence, because his mother was knocked down by a motorcycle and suffered memory and mobility problems.