A MAN was jailed for one week on Tuesday for using his mobile phone to snap an upskirt photograph of a freelance model.
Lim Eng Koon, 37, pleaded guilty to intruding into the privacy of the 19-year-old at Singapore International and Convention Centre (SICEC) at Raffles Boulevard on June 3 last year.
A magistrate's court heard that the woman was distributing flyers when she felt a touch on her inner thighs.
She turned around and saw Lim holding a cellphone in his hand.
He tried to walk away but the victim, believing that he had taken a photo from underneath her skirt, detained him with the help of security officers.
In court, Lim, a first offender, pleaded for a light sentence.
District Judge Wong Pek agreed with the prosecution that a jail term was warranted as for all such cases, the courts had always given a custodial sentence.
'This kind of behaviour should be strongly discouraged and the sentence must reflect that,'' she added.
Lim could have been jailed for up to one year and/or fined.
