A former police IT consultant has admitted filming young women in the changing rooms of Cotton On stores in Singapore.

Zheng Zhongshi, 34, was caught mounting hidden cameras disguised as coat hooks in fitting rooms at more than one of the stores.

In court yesterday, Zheng pleaded guilty to four charges of insulting the modesty of women and six of unauthorised access of a computer. A further 47 charges will be taken into consideration when he is sentenced on December 1.

It is the second conviction of a pervert caught in Cotton On stores which has gone to court this year. In August, Loh Wei Quan pleaded guilty to 16 of 49 charges of ‘insulting modesty’ and one of possessing obscene films. He was apprehended on November 15 2014 in a Cotton On store in Bedok Mall after a female customer noticed him filming in the fitting room and summonsed store staff.

In September last year, Zheng, who was at the time an application consultant for IT firm NCS, mounted cameras in two separate fitting rooms in the Cotton On shop at White Sands shopping mall, filming seven women changing before removing the cameras an hour later.

Several days later he mounted cameras in two fitting rooms of the Cotton On Plaza Singapura store, filming one woman changing before staff discovered the cameras and called the police.

When he discovered the cameras missing Zheng searched the police database (which he had access to as a consultant) to determine where they were. It is that act which drew the charges of unauthorised access of computers.

Zheng faces jail terms of up to a year on each charge of insulting the modesty of a woman.