PolyU student gets probation for toilet voyeurism case
SingTao · 2 SOURCESabout 2 hours ago5 MIN
Summary
A 20-year-old male student, Chan Ho-yik (陳何億), was sentenced at Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts to an 18-month probation order after pleading guilty to two counts of voyeurism. The case involved two incidents on 26 and 28 February 2026 inside a female toilet on the sixth floor of the Pao Yue-kong Library at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Yau Ma Tei. Police said he followed the two women into the area separately, used a mobile phone to film them while they were using toilet cubicles, and later changed clothes before leaving campus. After his arrest, he admitted the offences under caution and said he could not control himself and had acted on impulse.
Key Points
- The defendant, Chan Ho-yik, 20, described in court reports as a student, earlier admitted two voyeurism charges before sentencing on 5 October 2026.
- Both charges related to the sixth-floor female toilet of PolyU’s Pao Yue-kong Library at 11 Yuk Choi Road, Yau Ma Tei.
- In the first incident, at about 10am on 26 February 2026, victim X saw a phone with its front camera recording from under the cubicle partition.
- Two days later, victim Y reported that a phone was pushed under her cubicle from the next stall, with the rear camera facing upward.
- Investigators used CCTV footage and student card entry-and-exit records to identify the defendant, who refused to let police examine his password-locked phone.
Why It Matters
The case underlines how privacy offences in places such as university toilets can be carried out quickly and leave victims with little chance to confront the offender at the scene. It also shows the importance of surveillance footage and access-control records in identifying suspects on campuses and other semi-public premises.