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Dubai: An electrician has confessed to hiding his phone camera in a shopping basket to secretly film women and teenage girls wearing miniskirts in a hypermarket.
"I am guilty... I did it," the 43-year-old suspect, A.S., told the Dubai Court of First Instance on Thursday. The Public Prosecution charged him with breaching the privacy of a number of women.
A 34-year-old first corporal testified: "I was on duty when one of the hypermarket's security guards alerted me about his suspicions that the man was secretly filming women and small girls who wore miniskirts. I moved to the control room and watched the defendant carry a basket."
"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."
The suspect was arrested when he left the hypermarket and taken to the security office. The corporal said: "The defendant took out the mobile phone from his pocket. When we confronted him, he confessed that he took pictures of females wearing miniskirts because he wasn't married."
This is the second case of its kind handled by the Dubai courts.
The Dubai Court of Appeal earlier confirmed a six-month jail sentence against a 34-year-old British general manager for breaching the privacy of a number of women who wore miniskirts by using a digital videocamera to film up their skirts.
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