Lim Yi Fei, a 25-year-old Singaporean man, was sentenced on Friday, August 7, 2026, to nine months and 31 weeks' jail for multiple offences committed between 2016 and 2025. These offences include outrage of modesty and theft in dwelling.

The sentence follows an investigation where police discovered a mobile phone containing 179 upskirt videos taken over three years. Lim had filmed unknown women on separate occasions between January 2016 and February 2019 at various public locations such as escalators, walkways, streets, and shopping centres. In all videos, Lim approached the women from behind to record their buttocks.

Approximately a week before his arrest for the upskirt videos, in September 2019, Lim molested a woman at Serangoon MRT station.

The prosecution described Lim as a "serial, habitual offender" with offences dating back to 2016. During sentencing submissions, it was emphasized that a stiff and deterrent sentence was necessary to highlight that Lim's "blatant and egregious invasion of his victims' privacy is deserving of strong societal opprobrium and condemnation."

Lim's lawyer, Mr Jonathan Wong from Tembusu Law, argued in mitigation that while there appears to be a continuing pattern of conduct, Lim's actions were not driven by malice or predatory behaviour.

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