"Shau Kei Wan is extremely guilty of something," Superintendent Ray Pierce of the Hong Kong police force told reporters. "He must be. We’re just not sure exactly what it is though, so we’ve released him on bail until we can decide what to charge him with."

Superintendent Pierce, the Mong Kok police assistant district commander for crime, was giving details about the arrest of Shau Kei Wan, 34, a factory worker who had earlier been detained in the Grand Tower shopping centre. "He’s a peeping tom with some kind of underwear fetish, and he’s admitted that his favourite pastime is to follow women in mini skirts. He has a palmcorder hidden inside a black box, along with a torch and zoom lens, all on the end of a long control stick. He gets behind the women as they step onto the shopping mall escalators, positions his palmcorder between their legs pointing upwards, and then pushes the record button. Usually, the women have no idea that anything’s going on, only on this occasion Wan pressed the playback button by mistake, and the victim got a blast of an old pop video up her skirt. She screamed, there was a struggle as he tried to get his equipment back, and the security guards arrested him. We found a dozen video tapes when we raided his house, with footage of over a hundred pairs of women’s knickers on them. If that’s not a crime, then I don’t know what is. Only trouble is, he doesn’t actually seem to have broken any law."