‘Perverted’ Hong Kong railway worker gets 4½ years’ jail for crime spree including impersonating police officer to solicit porn videos from teens
- Fong Hung-shun, 36, committed progressively more serious crimes over a two-year period, from taking upskirt videos to sending women demeaning messages and threats
- He abused his position at MTR Corp to obtain victims’ personal information and contacted them using prepaid SIM cards to cover his tracks, judge says
Deputy District Judge Merinda Chow Yin-chu on Friday called Fong Hung-shun, 36, a pervert who committed progressively more serious crimes over a two-year period – from taking upskirt videos to sending women demeaning messages and threats.
The District Court judge also noted Fong had breached the trust of his then employer, rail giant the MTR Corp, by abusing his position to obtain his victims’ personal information, and had contacted them using prepaid SIM cards in a calculated move that made it difficult for them and police to track him down.
“It was fortunate that the victims had the wisdom not to fall for his tricks,” the judge said. “I consider that a heavy sentence is necessary to deter the defendant from reoffending.”
Fong was jailed for four years, five months and four weeks on 11 charges, with the judge recommending counselling and psychological therapy in prison.
The District Court previously heard that Fong was an operations performance officer for the MTR Corp, a position that gave him access to an internal computer system for compiling incident reports.
It was fortunate that the victims had the wisdom not to fall for his tricks
Using personal information he obtained from those reports, Fong then approached five women online to solicit nude videos, by impersonating a police officer or using threats that included causing trouble for one victim’s family, leaking allegations of misconduct about another and sharing videos of a third using the restroom.
