For his offences in 2019, the 44-year-old was sentenced to 10 days’ jail on Wednesday . He pleaded guilty to one count each of criminal trespass and attempting to insult a woman’s modesty.The court heard that on the morning of June 25, 2019, he entered the women’s toilet at Sparkline — located along Tanjong Pagar Road at the time — to install a pinhole camera in one of the cubicles there.Anyone looking up at the ceiling cannot possibly miss the camera sticking out like a sore thumb.
The colleague then handed over the device to the company’s human resource manager, who inserted the chip into a computer and noticed Balasingam-Chow’s face at the start of the recording while he was trying to fix the camera. Five video clips were found in the camera, but none had captured women relieving themselves. Balasingam-Chow himself was filmed installing the camera in the toilet for about one-and-a-half minutes.DPP Kaur told the court that Balasingam-Chow had showed premeditation and that it was “purely fortuitous” the camera was found, or he would have faced more serious charges.
The lawyer argued that it was a “victimless crime” as no women were filmed in the end. He also said there was no premeditation involved, arguing that if there was such, Balasingam-Chow would have been “so excited and eager to install it”. District Judge Lim Wen Juin said in his sentencing remarks that he accepted the camera was installed in an amateurish fashion, but this was merely the absence of an aggravating factor.
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