Delivery rider pleads guilty to filming 3 women in community centre toilet, once while waiting for food order

SINGAPORE — While waiting for a food order to be prepared, a delivery rider decided to enter a community centre's female washroom to film women in there.

He committed the same offence on three separate occasions at the centre. 

Muhammad Faiz Mohamed Yasin, 23, pleaded guilty on Tuesday (Jan 3) to two charges of voyeurism and another two in relation to criminal trespass. Two other similar charges will be taken into consideration for sentencing. 

He will return to court on Feb 28. The victims cannot be named due to a court order.

On May 30 in 2021 at around 11.10pm, the first victim entered a washroom located at the first level of Keat Hong Community Centre in Chua Chu Kang. The washroom was beside a fishball noodles shop. 

At the same time, Muhammad Faiz was waiting for food to be prepared and he used the toilet meant for disabled people next to the shop. 

After he was done, he heard a noise coming from the toilet for female users and decided to head in there with the intention to peep at people relieving themselves.

He noticed that one of the cubicles was occupied and activated the camera function on his mobile phone, placing it at the bottom of the cubicle door. 

However, the victim spotted the phone and shouted at him.

Panicking, he fled and hid in the toilet next door for male users, but was later recognised by the victim when he came out of there. 

He was arrested by the police on the same day and released on bail the next day. 

Around seven months later on Dec 13 in 2021 at about 9.45pm, a woman was using the toilet located on the second level of the same community centre. 

At the same time, Muhammad Faiz was in the toilet for male users. After he was done, he entered the toilet next door and noticed the woman in one of the cubicles.

He then held his mobile phone at the top of the cubicle door, with the camera lens of his phone pointing towards her. 

The woman immediately noticed the phone and stamped her feet in order to scare him by showing that she was aware of his presence.

He fled the scene and was later arrested by the police with the aid of closed-circuit television footages. 

Following his arrest, a 43-second-long video of another victim using a toilet was recovered from his phone. 

Investigations revealed that after filming the second victim, he returned to the same toilet the next day to film another woman using the toilet. 

Deputy Public Prosecutor Yeo Zhen Xiong sought a sentence of four months and three weeks’ jail. 

District Judge Lewis Tan called for a mandatory treatment order suitability report and adjourned sentencing to another day. The man's lawyer had stated that his client is taking antidepressants. 

A mandatory treatment order is a community sentencing option offered to offenders suffering from mental conditions that contributed to the offence. Those found suitable for such a sentence must attend sessions with a court-appointed psychiatrist.

Anyone convicted of voyeurism can be jailed for up to two years, fined, caned, or given any combination of the three. 

If convicted for criminal trespass, a person can be jailed for up to three months or fined up to S$1,500, or both.