Tan drove on to his girlfriend's place, where he changed his top and footwear. Police camera footage captured him running out of the lift and down the stairs back to his vehicle.
Tan then punched the victim twice in the face and the victim's grip on him loosened. A scuffle ensued, during which Tan tried to flee and the victim tried to grab his shirt collar to prevent him from escaping. She tried to grab his hand, but Tan pushed her chest. The flashlight on his phone was turned on.Īfter several moments, the victim noticed the light from Tan's phone and shouted at him, according to court documents. He stood behind the woman, who was listening to music on her earphones, and held his phone under her skirt. When the woman entered the lift, Tan rushed in as the lift door was closing and pressed a random floor number. When he saw the woman walk towards a lift lobby, he decided to follow her on foot. Tan followed the woman in his car for some distance before stopping at a car park to continue watching her. "He decided to follow her because, among other things, he perceived that she was wearing a short skirt," court documents stated. The court heard that the man, an insurance agent, was driving from Hougang Avenue 3 to his girlfriend's apartment when he spotted the victim at around 9pm on Sep 23, 2020. Tan Hiang Peng, 31, was jailed for 11 weeks on Wednesday (Jul 6) after pleading guilty to two charges of insulting the woman's modesty and voluntarily causing hurt.Ī third charge of possessing obscene films was taken into consideration for sentencing. He followed the stranger into a lift, where he pointed his phone camera up her skirt and later punched her when she tried to stop him from fleeing. SINGAPORE: While driving to his girlfriend's place, a man noticed a woman walking by in a skirt and decided to follow her first in his car, then on foot.