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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: silverbullet on May 03, 2024, 12:17:23 am
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Taxi driver who secretly filmed lodger in shower remanded in custody to ‘think about what he did’
Le Wang (42) pleaded guilty to harassing a foreign student over three months between December 2022 and March 2023
The Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin. Le Wang (42) of Balally Drive, Dundrum, Dublin 16, will be sentenced on May 16th. Photograph: Tom Honan
Jessica Magee
Thu May 2 2024 - 21:25
A man who secretly filmed his lodger while she was showering and then harassed her for months has been put in prison to “think about what he did” while a judge considers his sentence.
Le Wang (42) of Balally Drive, Dundrum, Dublin 16, pleaded guilty to harassing a foreign student over three months between December 2022 and March 2023.
At a sitting of Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Thursday, Judge Martin Nolan remanded Wang in custody for a fortnight pending sentence.
“I want him to look about him and think about what he did in the meantime,” said the judge, noting that Wang had videoed the woman twice in the shower and was attempting to do it a third time when the woman noticed the phone.
Wang had hidden the phone in a laundry basket, balanced on clothes at the foot of the bathtub, the court heard.
The judge said that when confronted, Wang implied threats to disclose the videos and harassed the young woman for three months, which had been very distressing for her.
The court heard that the woman had arrived in Ireland from China in 2021 to study and was offered a room to rent in Wang’s house.
Garda Paul Kane told Jane Murphy, prosecuting, that the woman paid €950 for her first month’s rent in December 2022.
She told gardaí that when she moved in, Wang started to text her every day, asking her things like what she was up to and whether she would like to go to a bar. He also asked her to let him know when she wanted to have a shower, the court heard.
On December 20th, 2022, the woman was in the bathroom getting ready to have a shower when she noticed the accused’s mobile phone balancing on clothes in the laundry basket.
She immediately brought it to the attention of Wang’s wife, who said her husband must have put it there by accident and gave it back to him.
Wang overheard the conversation and heard the student crying, the court heard. That evening, he sent her a series of text messages to the effect that she had to move out the next day.
The messages also contained the following threats: “If you make a big deal out of what happened tonight and ruin my family, I have a way of ruining your reputation. You better pretend nothing happened tonight.”
The student moved out that evening. Wang’s wife later rang the injured party and told her she had looked through her husband’s phone and found many videos of her on it.
In the months that followed, Wang tried to contact the student through several social media apps, including WhatsApp and WeChat, a messaging app used by the Chinese community.
The woman always tried to block his contact, and after 18 incidents of attempted conversations, the harassment ended on March 11th, 2023.
Wang was asking the woman to come back to the house, asking where she was and saying he wanted to apologise to her.
Gardaí seized the man’s phone and found two videos of the woman naked in the shower, taken on December 5th and 10th, 2022.
Garda Kane said the videos had been deleted and then restored, and photos had been screenshotted from them and shared to Wang’s own WeChat app.
Wang has no previous convictions. A victim-impact statement was handed to the judge but was not read aloud.
Garda Kane agreed with Marc Murphy, defending, that there was no suggestion that the images or videos had been shared with anyone else.
The court heard that Wang had co-operated fully with gardaí and seemed to suggest to them that his behaviour had been an extraordinary misjudgment or a “moment of madness”.
“Many moments of madness,” interjected the judge.
Wang came to Ireland about 20 years ago from China and has always worked, the court heard. He is currently self-employed as a taxi driver, working up to 50 hours a week.
A psychological report described Wang as extremely introverted and said his childhood had been “devoid of emotional expression”.
The judge remarked that there were plenty of introverted people in the world and that this was neither a mitigating nor an aggravating factor.
Counsel said Wang had made “an utter fool of himself” and put his marriage and his employment at risk. The court heard the psychological report had placed Wang at a low risk of recidivism.
“He’s a man who’s learnt his lesson,” said counsel, submitting letters from Wang and his wife to court.
Wang will be sentenced on May 16th.
Yes RC, it's explained in the article.
No bother.
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L7751
I wonder does he have CCTV in the car?
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I'd say Nolan held him in custody so he could go and get the footage of Le Wank!!
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I'd say Nolan held him in custody so he could go and get the footage of Le Wank!!
Heeyor Judge Nolan!
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Wang the Wong number
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Wang the Wong number
He's Huawei with the birds!! lol
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Wang should have just told them he was Jewish... ::fuck ::fuck
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Who wrote the article? I've another complaint about plagiarism in my inbox.
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Who wrote the article? I've another complaint about plagiarism in my inbox.
Read the article.
The Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin. Le Wang (42) of Balally Drive, Dundrum, Dublin 16, will be sentenced on May 16th. Photograph: Tom Honan
Jessica Magee
Thu May 2 2024 - 21:25
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Who wrote the article? I've another complaint about plagiarism in my inbox.
The exact same article seems to appear in the Irish Times, BreakingNews.ie and the Irish Indo with the same journalist on the byline. I think BreakingNews (& the Examiner) is owned by the Irish Times.
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/05/02/taxi-driver-who-secretly-filmed-lodger-in-shower-remanded-in-custody-to-think-about-what-he-did/#:~:text=considers%20his%20sentence.-,Le%20Wang%20(42)%20of%20Balally%20Drive%2C%20Dundrum%2C%20Dublin,for%20a%20fortnight%20pending%20sentence. (https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/05/02/taxi-driver-who-secretly-filmed-lodger-in-shower-remanded-in-custody-to-think-about-what-he-did/#:~:text=considers%20his%20sentence.-,Le%20Wang%20(42)%20of%20Balally%20Drive%2C%20Dundrum%2C%20Dublin,for%20a%20fortnight%20pending%20sentence.)
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/landlord-jailed-for-secretly-filming-student-lodger-in-shower-then-harassing-her-for-months-1620934.html (https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/landlord-jailed-for-secretly-filming-student-lodger-in-shower-then-harassing-her-for-months-1620934.html)
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-who-secretly-filmed-lodger-while-showering-put-in-prison-to-think-about-what-he-did-ahead-of-sentencing/a984367536.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-who-secretly-filmed-lodger-while-showering-put-in-prison-to-think-about-what-he-did-ahead-of-sentencing/a984367536.html)
Plus (according to Google):
Western News, Limerick Leader, Roscommon Hearld, Waterford Star & News, Kildare Nationalist, Carlow Nationalist, Laois Nationalist, Sunday World (All Indo-owned?) & Dublin People.
Same journalist by the looks of it. I hope she got paid per newspaper and not a once-off fee!
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Who wrote the article? I've another complaint about plagiarism in my inbox.
The exact same article seems to appear in the Irish Times, BreakingNews.ie and the Irish Indo with the same journalist on the byline. I think BreakingNews (& the Examiner) is owned by the Irish Times.
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/05/02/taxi-driver-who-secretly-filmed-lodger-in-shower-remanded-in-custody-to-think-about-what-he-did/#:~:text=considers%20his%20sentence.-,Le%20Wang%20(42)%20of%20Balally%20Drive%2C%20Dundrum%2C%20Dublin,for%20a%20fortnight%20pending%20sentence. (https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/05/02/taxi-driver-who-secretly-filmed-lodger-in-shower-remanded-in-custody-to-think-about-what-he-did/#:~:text=considers%20his%20sentence.-,Le%20Wang%20(42)%20of%20Balally%20Drive%2C%20Dundrum%2C%20Dublin,for%20a%20fortnight%20pending%20sentence.)
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/landlord-jailed-for-secretly-filming-student-lodger-in-shower-then-harassing-her-for-months-1620934.html (https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/landlord-jailed-for-secretly-filming-student-lodger-in-shower-then-harassing-her-for-months-1620934.html)
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-who-secretly-filmed-lodger-while-showering-put-in-prison-to-think-about-what-he-did-ahead-of-sentencing/a984367536.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-who-secretly-filmed-lodger-while-showering-put-in-prison-to-think-about-what-he-did-ahead-of-sentencing/a984367536.html)
Plus (according to Google):
Western News, Limerick Leader, Roscommon Hearld, Waterford Star & News, Kildare Nationalist, Carlow Nationalist, Laois Nationalist, Sunday World (All Indo-owned?) & Dublin People.
Same journalist by the looks of it. I hope she got paid per newspaper and not a once-off fee!
Plagiarism is a completely different thing RC.
The posts are not copied and pasted and claimed as the posters' own work, but the work of the person cited in the article.
From the CPA Ireland website:
Plagiarism CPA Ireland defines plagiarism as any or all of the following: (1) the presentation of another person’s thoughts, ideas, words, images, charts or tables (this list is not exhaustive) as one’s own; (2) not referencing appropriately any phrase, extract or any other part of another person’s work; (3) not referencing appropriately all, or part, of another person’s’ work that has been paraphrased; (4) the presentation as new and original, work previously submitted for assessment in any other course or part of the course to which the most recent submission relates, without appropriate acknowledgement of the previous submission; and (5) the facilitation by another of behaviour described in (1) to (4), above. Plagiarism may be intentional or unintentional. It is possible to plagiarise one’s own work.
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I think that if you copy an article and try to publish it with your own name for gain,then you are guilty of Plagiarism.I know that when my daughter wrote freelance for most rags in Uk and Eire, she had lots of other papers publishing her work ,without paying a fee to her.Very few would cough up unless it was going to court. I had a few brushes with my music and found that until you get paid for copying something and it makes a lot of money.Then the wigs will fight over a flimsey rule?
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Maybe they're threatening RC because he's admin.
In future, I'll post the URL along with the story.
As for posting articles that I pay for? Get your own subscription.
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Wang him earlier and he is Wong?
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You wang the wong number...
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Who wrote the article? I've another complaint about plagiarism in my inbox.
Read the article.
The Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin. Le Wang (42) of Balally Drive, Dundrum, Dublin 16, will be sentenced on May 16th. Photograph: Tom Honan
Jessica Magee
Thu May 2 2024 - 21:25
What we have there is "Photograph: Tom Honan Jessica Magee"... are they the photographers, are they in the photograph and, if so, what fucking photograph?
What's required is a link to the article which presumably includes the referenced photograph. Any of the multiple links Watty subsequently found would do. If the photographers or reporters mentioned want to post in their own right they may do so but if someone else is copying their work from elsewhere the relevant link is required.
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Who wrote the article? I've another complaint about plagiarism in my inbox.
Read the article.
The Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin. Le Wang (42) of Balally Drive, Dundrum, Dublin 16, will be sentenced on May 16th. Photograph: Tom Honan
Jessica Magee
Thu May 2 2024 - 21:25
What we have there is "Photograph: Tom Honan Jessica Magee"... are they the photographers, are they in the photograph and, if so, what fucking photograph?
What's required is a link to the article which presumably includes the referenced photograph. Any of the multiple links Watty subsequently found would do. If the photographers or reporters mentioned want to post in their own right they may do so but if someone else is copying their work from elsewhere the relevant link is required.
Don't sweat the small stuff.