UAE | Crime
Man who filmed up women's skirts to serve jail term
A court has confirmed a one-year prison term handed out to an electrician who breached the privacy of women shoppers by secretly filming up their miniskirts using a camera on his mobile phone.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:43 August 26, 2008
Dubai: A court has confirmed a one-year prison term handed out to an electrician who breached the privacy of women shoppers by secretly filming up their miniskirts using a camera on his mobile phone.
The Dubai Court of Appeal upheld the initial ruling, and found the 43-year-old Emirati electrician guilty of filming up women and teenage girls' skirts in a hypermarket, although his lawyer said he suffered from a mental disorder and sought a reduced punishment.
Mentally unstable
Records said the accused, A.S., pleaded guilty and admitted that he was at fault.
The Dubai Court of First Instance earlier sentenced A.S. to one year in jail and confiscated the pictures.
"I am guilty ... I did it," the accused told the court.
His lawyer sought a reduced jail term after he claimed that his client was mentally unstable. However, he was found mentally fit in an examination according the findings of a committee of psychiatric experts.
The Courts of Appeal and First Instance held him liable for his actions.
A 34-year-old first corporal testified: "The hypermarket's security guards alerted me about his suspicions that the man was secretly filming females who wore miniskirts. I watched the defendant carry a basket from the control room.
"He placed the basket on the floor near women and girls wearing miniskirts in a secret manner. He hid the phone in a small envelope in which he had made a hole and positioned the camera's lens towards that hole. He placed the envelope at the corner of the basket to sneakily film up the women's skirts."
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