SONG: DOCTOR TOOK PICTURES UP WOMAN’S SKIRT IN PRIMARK
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9 November 2011
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A doctor was caught taking photographs up a woman’s skirt as she tried on a pair of shoes in Primark, a hearing was told today (Weds).
Dr Adrian Tern Song, 37, tried to run away after he was confronted by the shopper’s friend in the busy store in London’s West End.
The doctor was detained by shop staff and arrested.
His phone contained ‘up-skirt’ pictures of unsuspecting victims while indecent photographs of naked children were found on his laptop.
Song escaped jail after pleading guilty to public indecency and possessing child porn but could now be struck off by the General Medical Council.
Andrew Hurst, for the GMC, said: ‘It was on 25 July last year when Dr Song was in the shoe department of Primark on Oxford Street.
‘Also present were two women, who were friends, together with each other.
‘Whilst one of them was trying on a pair of shoes, her friend noticed that the man had his mobile telephone under her friend’s skirt, and held it there for about ten seconds.
‘The friend then shouted out, and told her friend what the man was doing.
‘Although Dr Song tried to leave the store, to make his escape, in fact he was detained by several members of staff and in due course arrested.
‘Dr Song’s mobile telephone and laptop were seized by police and both were interrogated.
‘The mobile phone was found to have on it 17 images in total of a child posing in a bathing suit, and the laptop computer was found to have 16 indecent photographs of a child, assessed at level one.’
Level one pictures of children are at the lowest end of a scale of increasing seriousness between numbers one and five, the panel heard.
‘Level one images are usually understood as images depicting erotic posing with no sexual activity,’ said Mr Hurst.
He added: ‘The phone was also found to have other images of women’s legs, apparently taken in public without their knowledge.’
The woman filmed in Primark said in a police statement that she noticed a male of Asian appearance lurking behind her as she tried on a shoe.
Her friend told police that she started shouting ‘What are you doing?’ at Dr Song.
‘He then pulled the phone from underneath her skirt and started to walk away.’
She added: ‘The male was very bold to leave the phone there for as long as he could.’
Dr Song, of Dacre Road, Plaistow, east London, admitted three charges of making an indecent photograph of pseudo-photograph of a child and one charge of outraging public decency at Westminster Magistrates Court in January 2011.
He was sentenced to a three year community order with supervision requirements, concurrent on each count, and was also required to sign the sex offenders register.
Dr Song, who gained his medical qualifications from the University of London in 2000, is not attending his central London hearing today.
He sent a request for the case to be heard in private and said: ‘I am keen to avoid any adverse publicity both to myself and to the profession as a whole.’
But the panel said any adverse publicity would be a ‘small price to pay’ in return for the public’s confidence in the regulator by showing that serious complaints would be investigated.
They found the facts of the doctor’s conviction proved, and must now decide if he is fit to continue in the profession.
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