SINGAPORE – A former lawyer climbed over a parapet separating a balcony to break into his home in order to see his neighbors taking a shower.
Nicholas Yeo Shao Yi, 32, did this twice, capturing a woman in her 20s taking her first shower.
Yeo was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison on Thursday (August 18) after pleading guilty to charges of using his cell phone to watch his neighbor take a shower and of filming her. I was.
Two other charges of trespassing were the subject of his sentence.
The court heard Yeo, the former Allen & Gledhill attorney, committed the crime because he was experiencing work-related stress since the April-June 2020 circuit breaker period.
He lived in a terraced house that shared an adjoining wall with the house next door. The bathroom in the master bedroom opens onto a small balcony through the window.
Because the toilets were next to each other, Yeo was able to tell when the victim was taking a shower by hearing the victim’s voice and video playback.
On the night of November 23, 2020, he assumed she was bathing and climbed over the parapet onto the balcony to photograph her.
He held the phone outside the shower window, but the victim glanced at the phone before it started recording.
She cried out in surprise and saw Yo running home.
An investigation revealed that months before the November 2020 incident, the accused had sneaked onto the victim’s balcony and filmed them taking a shower. he later deleted the video.
Police seized six of his electronic devices (two laptops and four iPhones). They found no more obscene material on the gadget.
Deputy prosecutor Yvonne Poon told the court that the scheme was involved because she waited until Yeo sensed that the victim was in the bathroom to commit the crime.
