Friday, June 10, 2026 - A medical doctor has admitted secretly filming 900 hospital staff after hiding his phone in the toilets to spy on colleagues.
Dr Ryan Yi Cho, 28, pleaded guilty in a Melbourne court to
13 charges including producing an intimate image, installing a device and
stalking.
SA court heard he allegedly possessed more than 4,500
images and around 160 videos of undressed work colleagues
The doctor claimed he had secretly filmed hundreds of fellow
employees in bathrooms and showers at several different hospitals since 2020.
At least five locations across the city were allegedly
targeted by Cho, including the Austin Hospital, Royal Melbourne Hospital and
the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
The doctor covered his face in shame and stayed silent as
reporters approached him outside Melbourne Magistrate’s Court in Australia on
Tuesday, July 7.
Cho pleaded guilty to charges including producing intimate
images, installing optical surveillance devices, stalking and failing to comply
with a direction to assist police.
He has been bailed until November 23 when he will face a
pre-sentence hearing.
During the session, he is expected to give an explanation
for his actions to hundreds of unsuspecting victims for the first time.
The court also heard that the stalking charge was related to
just one victim.
Cho allegedly took 104 intimate videos and 3,424 photos of
the woman without her consent.
He also admitted to “accessing her property and personal
documents and images”, the court heard.
The former doctor faces several years behind bars but
currently remains free in the community after his wealthy parents paid £25,000
bond.
Cho had initially been remanded in custody, but was released
after a successful appeal to the Supreme Court.
He also replaced his legal team with lawyers from Doogue and
George, known for representing accused Beef Wellington poisoner Erin
Patterson.
A court previously heard how Cho grew up in Singapore and had no prior
criminal history.
The suspect was arrested initially on July 10 last year
after a phone hidden in a mesh bag was discovered in a staff toilet at the
Austin Hospital in Melbourne.
Examinations of his electronic devices led investigators to
lay out several new allegations.
On July 25, the court heard local police found 10,374 video
and image files of Cho’s alleged victims on several devices.
They allegedly contained videos and images of both men and
women using hospital bathrooms
Cho has been banned from every hospital he has previously
worked at and had his medical licence suspended.
Local cops previously told the court that Cho was a
“devious” offender who knew exactly what he wanted and how to go about it.
Senior Constable Neral Baykur said at an earlier hearing:
“The accused has demonstrated in his level and pattern of offending that he is
calculated and obsessed.
“The accused devoted enormous amounts of time and effort
into keeping his colleagues under surveillance in their bathroom facilities.
“[He went] to lengths to tamper with surrounding toilets to
divert victims into where he set up and concealed his device, only to spend
more time downloading and categorising the intimate footage and storing it on
his laptop.”
The court heard Cho allegedly captured hours of footage by
hanging mesh bags with phones inside on the back of staff toilet doors.
One clip allegedly lasted three hours and is said to have
captured multiple employees in states of undress.
Dozens of women are now seeking compensation from Austin
Hospital, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
The hospitals are facing complaints for allegedly failing to
prevent this type of s£xual assault from taking place.
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