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. In first for Hong Kong, domestic helper takes employers to court for sex discrimination over pregnancy test 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. Tam initially remained silent after he was intercepted by police at Lok Ma Chau Boundary Control Point on Monday. But he admitted on a second interview that he watched his helper in the shower through live images transmitted from the camera to his mobile phone. Hong Kong domestic helper found guilty of sex with boy aged 8 Tam, father to a 17-year-old daughter and a 13-year-son, had a clean criminal record. Defence counsel said in mitigation that Tam was very remorseful and apologetic towards the victim as he explained the act was only committed on impulse, adding Tam had promised to never reoffend. But principal magistrate Ernest Lin Kam-hung was sceptical. “He has a pinhole camera connected to an app on his mobile phone,” he said. “It was not an act of impulse.” The counsel also revealed that Tam’s wife had already asked for a divorce. Sentencing has been adjourned to April 22, pending a probation officer report, a background report and a psychological report. Under the Crimes Ordinance, the charge is liable to five years’ imprisonment upon conviction on indictment.