He would later transfer the footage to an MP4 player.
No one suspected anything although several neighbours saw him in the car,
normally during lunch time.
The girls' college mates confirmed seeing the suspect in his car when they came
home for lunch but thought nothing of it.
"We did not even know that he owned the house. It never crossed our minds that
he was up to no good," said one of them.
The youth was one of the two who spotted the cameras after being alerted by the
girls who lived next door. He declined to be identified.
He said the Avanza was usually parked under a tree or in front of the girls'
house two or three times a week.
"He looked as if he was reading something from a laptop, but we ignored him.
I only realised he was the landlord when police arrested him on Saturday
night," he said.
His friend said they usually came home for lunch, just like the other college
students living in the area.
"We were shocked when one of the girls asked for our help after showing us a
picture she took on her cell phone of something in the toilet.
"We went to their house and using a knife, we took off the cover and found the
spy cam. We tested it and noticed that the camera was activated everytime the
bathroom lights came on," he said.
They called police who arrived at 10pm. After checking the house, police told
the girls to ask the landlord to come over.
"The man was arrested when he arrived at midnight," he said.
Sentul police chief Assistant Commissioner K.
Kumaran said the case is being investigated although it had been solved with
the arrest of the suspect.
The case is being investigated under Section 292 of the Penal Code for
possession of obscene objects which, if convicted, is punishable by a jail term
of up to three years, or a fine, or both.
It is learnt that police will submit the investigation paper to the deputy
public prosecutor's office today.
On Monday, it was reported that 19 students living in the double-storey terrace
house for two years did not know that they were being watched via spy cams
installed in all the three bathrooms.
On Saturday evening, however, one of the girls who was showering noticed
something sticking out of the ceiling and checked with her neighbours.
Upon investigating, they found the cameras installed near the fluorescent
lights.
