{"id":166657,"date":"2025-08-22T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166657\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:14:10","slug":"doctor-accused-of-secretly-filming-colleagues-has-complex-mental-health-issues-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166657\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor accused of secretly filming colleagues has &#8216;complex&#8217; mental health issues, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A trainee surgeon accused of secretly filming hundreds of women in hospital toilets and bathrooms has &#8220;complex&#8221; mental health issues, his lawyer says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Ryan Cho, <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-08-21\/junior-doctor-extra-charges-melbourne-hospitals\/105681738\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/105681738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who is facing more than 130 charges<\/a>, was freed on bail on Friday at the second attempt following his arrest last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Defence barrister Julian McMahon SC told the Supreme Court the alleged offending would eventually be understood as &#8220;complex psychiatric and psychological issues together with criminal conduct&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mr McMahon said he expected &#8220;hundreds&#8221; more charges to be laid by the end of the year, and that Dr Cho&#8217;s case could encounter lengthy delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">However prosecutor Russ Hammill said Dr Cho could expect to face a County Court trial in the second half of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 28-year-old&#8217;s charges include stalking, producing intimate images and secretly installing surveillance devices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-07-26\/melbourne-doctor-allegedly-ranked-content-hospital-toilet\/105576856\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/105576856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allege Dr Cho secretly installed cameras to film at least 460 unsuspecting people<\/a> in the toilets and showers of the Austin Hospital, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The images relate to the intimate bathroom behaviour of many hundreds of women,&#8221; Mr Hammill said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The prosecutor said the alleged offending &#8220;borders on the obsessive&#8221;, telling the court about 4,500 videos had been located on Dr Cho&#8217;s electronic devices. The total number of people captured in the clips remained unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Justice James Elliott granted bail on Friday afternoon, saying risks to the community could be managed by &#8220;very strict conditions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Those include a curfew, compulsory medical treatment and living with his parents, who have paid a $50,000 surety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He will also be banned from attending hospitals, unless in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor kept in 23-hour lockdown in prison<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Dr Cho, wearing a white shirt and black suit, was supported in court by his mother and father who have moved from Singapore for at least three months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">His father, Wilson, told the court he had &#8220;no idea&#8221; of his son&#8217;s alleged crimes until learning of the charges last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police wanted to hold Dr Cho in custody, arguing there was an &#8220;unacceptable risk&#8221; the Singaporean national was a flight risk, would not surrender himself into police, and could interfere with witnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mr McMahon said Dr Cho was entitled to the presumption of bail, arguing his client would live at a rental property with his parents and had no links to organised criminals who could help him flee the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Dr Cho&#8217;s barrister said his client had been kept in isolation in prison and was subjected to a 23-hour lockdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He said there was no evidence Dr Cho had been violent or threatened the people he was accused of secretly filming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;There&#8217;s no allegation of material being distributed, forwarded or marketed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">As part of his bail conditions, Dr Cho has surrendered his passport and will not be allowed to own any recording devices, such as cameras or phones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He will have to report to a local police station three times a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trainee surgeon accused of secretly filming hundreds of women in hospital toilets and bathrooms has &#8220;complex&#8221; mental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95774,4740,37635,95777,50,95775,95776,60387],"class_list":{"0":"post-166657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-austin-hospital","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bail","11":"tag-filming-colleauges","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-peter-maccallum-cancer-centre","14":"tag-royal-melbourne-hospital","15":"tag-ryan-cho"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115072838183042011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}