A Hong Kong teenager dressed in a black lace dress and high-heel boots was caught taking snaps of women in a public toilet, a press report said on Thursday.
The 17-year-old was also wearing a long-haired wig when he was cornered in a toilet of a karaoke bar after a woman discovered he was using his cellphone to take pictures of her, the Chinese-language newspaper Apple Daily said.
The teenager, surnamed Lam, had sneaked into the women’s toilets at about 2am on Wednesday and hidden in one of the cubicles.
Holding his camera-mounted cellphone over the partitions, he took pictures of women in the next loo, the paper said.
Lam was only found out when one woman heard a ”strange noise” made by his cellphone. As he tried to make his escape, another woman walked into the bathroom, forcing him to run back and lock himself in the cubicle.
He was arrested by police and detained for further investigations, the paper said.
According to police figures, there have been 41 similar incidents so far this year, up from 12 last year. — Sapa-AFP