Peeping Tom caught in the act

KUALA LUMPUR: A 27 year-old woman was left shaken and under trauma after her boyfriend caught her male housemate peeping at her in the shower.
The woman who works in the IT sector had been suspicious of her housemate's behaviour for some time and had her boyfriend spring a trap on the perpetrator.
Her boyfriend video taped the housemate peeping on his girlfriend while she was in the shower.
The bigger shock came when they went to lodge a police report with the video evidence as the police had claimed that there was nothing they could do due to lack of evidence.
The woman, who only wanted to be known as Ooi, who had been living in the rented double-story house for three years, said the male tenant moved into the house in January.
She claimed that she saw very little of him as her room was downstairs and his was on the second floor.
Ooi said she had an inkling that she was being watched about three weeks ago when she heard footsteps outside the bathroom window as she was having her morning shower.
"I thought it was my housemates walking in the wet kitchen of the house. However on the morning of Oct 11, while I was having a shower, I happened to look up and saw a person's forehead at the bathroom window pane," she said at a press conference at the MCA Public Services and Complaints department today.
Ooi was stunned and rushed to her room to call her boyfriend.
Instead of confronting the voyeur, her boyfriend, Chong, 31, hatched a plan to catch the perpetrator in the act.
Their plan was to have her boyfriend video tape the culprit while he committed the lewd act.
"I proceeded to video tape him while she was in the shower and we immediately took the video evidence to the police," he said.
"I was shocked when the police said they couldn't do anything about the incident although we had evidence," he said.
He claimed the police had only sent a letter to the landlord to evict the man from the premises.
Department head Datuk Seri Michael Chong urged the police to act and punish the culprit as he may go on to do this to other women.
In an immediate response, Serdang district police chief ACP Megat Mohd Aminuddin Megat Alias said Ooi had told the police that she wanted to see Chong before making a decision on whether to proceed with the case.
"We called the complainant (Ooi) to ask her if she wanted to continue with the case …There is no evidence to suggest that the police have not carried out their duties because of lack of evidence. We are waiting for the complainant to get back to us to continue the case," he said.