Homestay boss fined for filming guests in shower


IPOH: A homestay operator here who filmed his guests nude in the bathroom three years ago has been fined RM10,000 by a magistrate’s court after he admitted to the offence.

Lim Lai Heng, 45, had last November been acquitted and discharged of insulting the modesty of eight guests – five of whom were female – aged between 17 and 53 at the time of the incident.

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