DUBAI // A man installed hidden cameras in the bathroom and a bedroom of his apartment to record his female flatmates taking showers and getting dressed, a court was told.
JR, 37, from the Philippines, shared a flat with three women, compatriots, M, ML and LAM.
ML, 34, told the Dubai Criminal Court that she arrived home in November last year and found M, whose age was not given, in a distressed state after she discovered a camera in the bathroom.
“She showed me a device disguised as a clothes hanger mounted on the bathroom door. I took it off and found that it was a camera,” said ML, who took the camera to a police station along with two laptops that belonged to JR.
Prosecutors said JR confessed to recording women when questioned by officers.
“I installed a hidden camera in the woman’s bedroom while she was taking a shower so that could I watch her getting dressed,” JR said.
He was charged with attempted sexual assault of ML and LAM, whose age was not given, and sexual assault of another unidentified women.
JR did not appear in court to enter a plea. No date was given for another hearing.
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