Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong restaurant chef admits to filming upskirt clips

The Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong restaurant chef, who once worked at the Michelin-starred Tokyo restaurant, admitted to secretly filming videos of women in upskirts, saying he did it because he suffered from depression and had been influenced by pornography. .

The Eastern Court on Thursday convicted Japanese national Eisaku Hara, 50, who hid a pen camera in the side pocket of his backpack to film three women inside the chain’s central store. Don Don Donki retail sale on April 10, 2022.

Pleading guilty to three counts of unlawfully recording or observing private parts, Hara told the court he had acted “impulsively” because he suffered from depression following his separation from his family in Japan for the Covid-19 pandemic.

Magistrate Tsang Chung-yiu said he would consider imposing a prison sentence because the offenses were far more serious than similar cases in which mobile phones were used to take illegal and surreptitious photos.

“I find that the accused used a camera pen, and that must demonstrate that it was premeditated before he acted,” he said.

A hotel spokeswoman said it did not oversee the management of the restaurant, located on its premises. “The restaurant is independently run by another party,” she said. “We are saddened by this incident and our thoughts are with those who were affected.”