Nude victims in ‘compromising’ acts

SOME of the footage seized from the voyeur who installed spy cams in the bathrooms used by 19 college girls showed some of the victims in ‘compromising positions’.

Sources said the incriminating footage was found in an MP4 player seized from the 34-year-old suspect.

“He would store the clips containing incriminating acts for his own use and delete the rest after watching them,” said a source.

The voyeur spent hours scouring the Net on how to install the spy cams before acquiring the equipment from eBay, a popular online auction site which deals with all kinds of gadgets, spending thousands of ringgit.

The source said the suspect got his chance when tenants of his double-storey house in Taman Bullion Mewah in Sentul complained of a faulty toilet two months ago.

He told the girls that he needed a day to repair the toilet and used the opportunity to install the cameras in the other bathrooms in the house.

The father of two, who was reported to have gained the trust of his tenants, then spent several hours a week sitting in his Toyota Avanza parked outside the house where he would get ‘live’ video streaming from the bathrooms via his laptop.

He would later transfer the footage to an MP4 player.

No one suspected anything although several neighbours saw him in the car, normally during lunch time.

The girls’ college mates confirmed seeing the suspect in his car when they came home for lunch but thought nothing of it.

“We did not even know that he owned the house. It never crossed our minds that he was up to no good,” said one of them.

The youth was one of the two who spotted the cameras after being alerted by the girls who lived next door. He declined to be identified.

He said the Avanza was usually parked under a tree or in front of the girls’ house two or three times a week.

“He looked as if he was reading something from a laptop, but we ignored him.

I only realised he was the landlord when police arrested him on Saturday night,” he said.

His friend said they usually came home for lunch, just like the other college students living in the area.

“We were shocked when one of the girls asked for our help after showing us a picture she took on her cell phone of something in the toilet.

“We went to their house and using a knife, we took off the cover and found the spy cam. We tested it and noticed that the camera was activated everytime the bathroom lights came on,” he said.

They called police who arrived at 10pm. After checking the house, police told the girls to ask the landlord to come over.

“The man was arrested when he arrived at midnight,” he said.

Sentul police chief Assistant Commissioner K.

Kumaran said the case is being investigated although it had been solved with the arrest of the suspect.

The case is being investigated under Section 292 of the Penal Code for possession of obscene objects which, if convicted, is punishable by a jail term of up to three years, or a fi ne, or both.

It is learnt that police will submit the investigation paper to the deputy public prosecutor’s office today.

On Monday, it was reported that 19 students living in the double-storey terrace house for two years did not know that they were being watched via spy cams installed in all the three bathrooms.

On Saturday evening, however, one of the girls who was showering noticed something sticking out of the ceiling and checked with her neighbours.

Upon investigating, they found the cameras installed near the fl uorescent lights.

Source: The Malay Mail