Never seen the true face of Singapore most famous casanova? Never seen the face of a real mudderfucker or cousinfocker, for that matter? Well Lianhe Wanbao did us that favour. We have heard his voice in the interviews, saw his back and body with a cap, thanks to RazorTV, and now this rare pic.
Wearing a red tie and black blazer, he looked more like a fresh graduate looking for a job, or some secondhand car salesman.
Gary Ng, the man dubbed Singapore's Edison Chen was sentenced to 50 months' jail and fined S$20,000 (RM46,400) on Wednesday for a series of offences.
Gary, whose real name is Chen Guilin, 28, had admitted to having 507 obscene films, mostly of himself having sex with other women.
Some of the women were willing parties for the filming while others were not. He had hidden a video camera in a plastic bag with a slit to film his acts and uploaded some on the Internet.
The former property agent had also pleaded guilty to four charges of forgery and one count each of housebreaking and theft, criminal breach of trust and unlawfully having another person's identity card. He committed a total of 21 offences from 2006 to June last year involving property worth S$171,770 (RM398,506).
The prosecution had earlier urged the court to impose a heavy fine and at least four years' jail in view of the severe aggravating factors.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Paul Wong said Chen was a recalcitrant offender, and that all the offences were dishonest involving pre-planning and scheming.
Chen's lawyer, Savliwala Din had told the court in mitigation that his client made no excuse for his wrongdoing.
Chen turned to crime when he could not earn enough money from his commissions as a real estate agent, his lawyer added.
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Hard for women in videos to prove their distress
by Vivien Chan
Some women may not have known that they were filmed having sex with "Gary Ng", whose real name is Chen Guilin.
But now that his picture has been published, they may soon realise that they could have unintentionally starred in one of Chen's infamous sex videos.
So what legal options do these women have?
Lawyers told The New Paper that the women may be able to sue Chen in a civil suit for causing distress, embarrassment or anxiety but it may be difficult as the onus is on them to prove the case.
Lawyer Amarick Gill said: "They have to prove and establish the criteria for their claim to succeed. It's a question of whether the unknown perimeters can be established."
That includes proving that the women are in the videos.
That itself is a difficult task, given that Chen took care to mask the faces of himself and his sex partners in the videos that he posted online.
He added that the women also have to prove that they suffered some form of embarrassment, distress or anxiety as a result of the videos, which were circulated online after netizens downloaded them.
Mr Gill said: "Whether or not (Gary) intended for the videos to be downloaded, we won't know.
"(The women) would definitely have suffered some distress or anxiety but you can't prove how many people have viewed or downloaded it."
Mr Gill also cited a problem that might occur.
"You might start having many women coming out of the woodwork, each claiming to be one of the women in the videos. Who's to prove if they are or they are not?" he said.
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