Hongkonger who secretly filmed his domestic helper in shower pleads guilty
Court hears he installed a pinhole camera and transmitted live images to his mobile phone
A married food stall owner was remanded in custody by Kwun Tong Court after admitting he watched his Filipino helper taking a shower through a pinhole camera last Saturday.
On his first court appearance on Friday, Tam Wing-wui, 45, pleaded guilty to one count of obtaining access to a computer with a view to dishonest gain for oneself or another.
The court heard that Tam asked his helper to let him take a shower first when she was about to use the bathroom in his Tseung Kwan O home on April 2.
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The two were home alone in the flat as Tam’s family had travelled to the mainland at the time.
When it was the helper’s turn to use the bathroom, she noticed a black object clipped onto the wall beneath the shower room rack, but she proceeded to take a shower as she did not know what it was.
She realised the next day that the black object was a pinhole camera when she saw it again while cleaning Tam’s room after he left for the mainland to join his family.
Suspecting she had been filmed, she then reported the case to police.
The filming gadget measured two by six centimetres.