Man Got Caught for Replacing Female Colleague’s Clothes With Other Tights & Underwear

There are certain barriers that you just don’t cross at work, whether literal or figurative.

For instance, in a typical office, employees are separated from each other with desk dividers because we’d end up developing homicidal tendencies otherwise.

You should also never eat your colleague’s sandwich that she left so enticingly in the fridge, because that’s a dick move. 

These things are bad enough, but what if your colleague stole your underwear?

Man Got Caught for Replacing Female Colleague’s Clothes With Other Tights & Underwear

A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty on Thursday (12 Nov) to unlawfully stalking his 27-year-old colleague.

The man had stolen the victim’s undergarments on two occasions, according to The New Paper. 

The first incident occurred on 26 Feb last year.

The victim had placed gym clothes on her office desk and left for some time. When she returned, she discovered that her clothes were in a mess and that her sports bra was missing.

She sent a message to the department group chat, asking if anyone had taken it.

The man initially denied it, but after the woman warned she would complain to the department director if no one admitted to the theft, he asked her to meet him and he confessed, crying and begging for the woman’s forgiveness.

He returned her sports bra along with a bottle of perfume and apology notes. The woman did not report the man.

However, despite getting caught once, the man just couldn’t help himself.

On 28 Nov, the woman noticed that some of her clothing items from her bag which she had placed in an unsecured cabinet in the office had gone missing.

Someone had replaced them with a pair of tights and a set of underwear that did not belong to her.

It didn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure this one out.

She confronted the man who previously stole her sports bra, and he confessed.

This time, she wasn’t going to let it go.

Brought Them Home to Sniff

The woman made a police report on 3 Dec, and her NRIC was found after the man’s house was searched.

He admitted to the police that he had brought his colleague’s clothing items home to sniff them.

In court, the man’s lawyer claimed his client suffers from an adjustment disorder with depressive moods.

The judge said the man’s suitability for probation and a mandatory treatment order (MTO) would be assessed.

According to TNP, offenders who are given an MTO have to undergo psychological treatment instead of serving time in prison.

Those convicted of unlawful stalking face a fine of up to $5,000, a year in prison, or both.

The man will return to court for sentencing on 17 Dec.

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