Jail for pious upskirt pervert

A pious Christian was jailed for four months yesterday for taking about 4,800 upskirt videos and photographs while he stood behind women on escalators, stairwells and even in offices.

Before 29-year-old Chau King-wah was sentenced, defence counsel Rita So told Sha Tin magistrates' court that the defendant was a strict Christian. He and his girlfriend had been celibate throughout the four years they had dated as they did not believe in sex before marriage, she added.

However, Magistrate Merinda Chow Yin-chu said the case had revealed the non-Christian side of the computer technician.

Chau was being jailed to get the message across that no woman was willing to let strangers take upskirt photos of them, she added.

Chow also warned that the number of such cases was on the rise given the technological advances and widespread use of mobile phones.

Chau had pleaded guilty to 21 counts of committing an act outraging public decency and one count of behaving in a disorderly manner in a public place. The crimes spanned 18 months.

So said Chau understood that he had humiliated his victims and had failed to show them respect.