Never underestimate the idiocy of depravity. A man thought he could get away with voyeuristic endeavour by hiding his phone in a toilet mop to record a female colleague in the loo, but his plan was foiled immediately.
38-year-old Shafie Mustafa has been jailed for two months after pleading guilty to one charge each of criminal trespass and intending to insult modesty, The New Paper reports.
The former forklift driver had been employed at a company located along Jurong Port Road last year when he carried out his scheme. Shafie entered the female toilet at the company, set his mobile phone on video recording mode and hid it in a mop in the cubicle while making sure that the lens was pointed at the toilet bowl.
He waited nearby outside the toilet as his 25-year-old female colleague went inside. In the cubicle itself, the woman noticed the mobile phone hiding in between the mop's strands and was outraged to find that it had been filming her while she was using the toilet.
She immediately handed the phone to the supervisor and the police were called. Shafie, who found that his phone had been taken away from the mop, panicked and left the premises. He was soon arrested.
In court, it was revealed that Shafie had been fired previously in 1996 for another voyeuristic act.
Shafie could have been jailed for up to three months and/or fined $1,500 for criminal tresspass, while he could have been jailed for a year and/or fined for intending to outrage modesty.
Photo: Ruth Hartnup via Flickr
Never underestimate the idiocy of depravity. A man thought he could get away with voyeuristic endeavour by hiding his phone in a toilet mop to record a female colleague in the loo, but his plan was foiled immediately.
38-year-old Shafie Mustafa has been jailed for two months after pleading guilty to one charge each of criminal trespass and intending to insult modesty, The New Paper reports.
The former forklift driver had been employed at a company located along Jurong Port Road last year when he carried out his scheme. Shafie entered the female toilet at the company, set his mobile phone on video recording mode and hid it in a mop in the cubicle while making sure that the lens was pointed at the toilet bowl.
He waited nearby outside the toilet as his 25-year-old female colleague went inside. In the cubicle itself, the woman noticed the mobile phone hiding in between the mop's strands and was outraged to find that it had been filming her while she was using the toilet.
She immediately handed the phone to the supervisor and the police were called. Shafie, who found that his phone had been taken away from the mop, panicked and left the premises. He was soon arrested.
In court, it was revealed that Shafie had been fired previously in 1996 for another voyeuristic act.
Shafie could have been jailed for up to three months and/or fined $1,500 for criminal tresspass, while he could have been jailed for a year and/or fined for intending to outrage modesty.
Photo: Ruth Hartnup via Flickr