Sporean doc in Melbourne faces 133 charges for filming colleagues in toilets

A Singaporean trainee doctor was granted bail after a Melbourne court on Aug 22, after he was handed an additional 127 charges over an alleged filming of hundreds of colleagues in hospital showers and toilets.

- Marie McNerney

Ryan Cho, who is out on bail, alleged to have recorded more than 450 people

MELBOURNE -

Ryan Cho, 28, who to date faces a total of 133 charges, though that number is expected to rise significantly, is alleged to have filmed more than 450 nurses, doctors and other colleagues at the hospital where he had worked since 2021.

Despite opposition from police, the trainee surgeon was granted permission to attend the bail hearing, who his support and parents into the Singaporean surnamed Victoria Supreme Court (and in Victoria’s AS$50,000 bail).

Cho had been detained for nearly a month in extended solitary confinement, unable to access any meaningful psychiatric or psychological treatment, his lawyer Julian McMahon said.