RTHK editor gets 160 hours of community service for upskirt video
Chong Tak-yin, 57, pleaded guilty to unlawful recording of intimate parts after police found an upskirt video on his phone
A Hong Kong court has ordered a civil servant at public broadcaster RTHK to complete 160 hours of community service after he admitted taking upskirt footage of a woman in public.
Chong Tak-yin, an assistant chief assignment editor in RTHK’s Chinese news and current affairs division, was sentenced on Wednesday at West Kowloon Court after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful recording or observation of intimate parts.
The 57-year-old told arresting officers the offence was “a momentary lapse of judgment” driven by sexual impulse when he filmed the woman in a skirt in Mong Kok on November 14 last year.
According to court documents, patrolling officers spotted him suspiciously following the woman. A stop and search found a video on his phone showing the woman’s lower body.
At an earlier hearing, defence counsel Joe Chan Wai-yin said Chong was married with two sons and earned about HK$90,000 (US$11,480) a month as the family’s sole breadwinner.