Six weeks’ jail for man who filmed 10 men using urinal

SINGAPORE — Over around an hour, he repeatedly trailed men into the toilet so he could film them using the urinal, amassing clips of 10 victims before he was exposed.

Kwan Jia Hong, 34, was sentenced to six weeks’ jail on Wednesday (Nov 8) for two counts of making obscene videos and one count of possessing four obscene films. Five more counts of these offences were taken into consideration for the purposes of sentencing.

Kwan committed the offences at Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) on July 14 last year. He told the court he went to the school at around 11am that day to do his work but after about three hours, he started filming his victims in the toilet using his iPhone.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Sruthi Boppana said Kwan chose a toilet frequented by students.

At about 2.10pm, Kwan recorded a 57-second video of five men using the urinal. One of them, an 18-year-old NYP student, noticed Kwan “acting suspiciously”.

“Suspecting that (Kwan) had recorded a video of him urinating, (the student) decided to observe him for a longer period,” DPP Sruthi told the court.

Five minutes later, Kwan captured another video lasting 1 minute and four seconds, of another man using the urinal, then walking to the sink to wash his hands and style his hair.

As Kwan prepared to leave the toilet, the NYP student confronted him, demanding to check Kwan’s mobile phone. When Kwan refused, the teenager called the police.

At around 5pm, police officers arrived and seized the phone from Kwan, which contained the obscene clips. He had another iPhone containing clips of men engaging in sexual acts, among other things, said DPP Sruthi.

“He would replay the videos that he recorded and view them a few times before deleting them,” the prosecutor told the court.

This was not Kwan’s first time recording other men in a public toilet, the court was told.

For making an obscene film, Kwan could have been fined up to S$40,000 and/or jailed up to two years, on each count.

For being in possession of an obscene film, he could have been fined S$1,000 per film, or jailed up to 12 months, or both.