A 65 year-old man was arrested by the Public Security Police Force (PSP) after being accused by a schoolgirl of taking under-skirt photographs, the PSP informed in press conference held yesterday at the police force’s headquarters.
A 17 year-old student called the police on Friday to inform them that a suspicious man was at the footbridge of Estrada da Areia Preta using his mobile phone to take photographs under the skirts of pedestrians passing by.
As the police officers arrived on the scene, the accuser pointed to a man standing near the footbridge saying that on May 17 the same person had taken photos of her while she was using the escalator and afterward when she had crouched to tie her shoelaces.
The victim explained to the officers that after tying her shoelaces, she had looked back to find the man quickly putting away his mobile phone in a nervous and suspicious manner. After crossing the bridge she was informed by an eyewitness on the opposite side that her suspicions had been correct and that he had photographed her.
As she was late for school and was surprised by the incident, the schoolgirl did not inform the authorities immediately. However, after seeing the same person at the same location two days following the incident, and acting in the same suspicious manner, she decided to alert the authorities.
The man, questioned by the police, admitted the crime and stated that he had been doing this since the middle of last year and had collected the photo files in an external computer hard drive at home.
A search at his residence address found the referred hard drive to contain around 80,000 images of under-skirt photographs dated from August 2015 to the present day.
The victim recognized photographs of herself in at least 10 images among the bundle as well as another five schoolmates who had already been contacted by the PSP regarding the case.
fake currency case
In a separate case, the Judiciary Police (PJ) recently caught two men from the mainland who were trying to pass fake currency in a casino located in Cotai.
After being reported by the casino the men were intercepted by the PJ in possession of a total of 33 counterfeited HKD1,000 bank notes. The quality of the forgery was considered “quite bad” as they appeared to be photocopies of original bank notes. The men were presented to the Public Prosecutions Office accused of the fraudulent use of counterfeit currency.
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