{"id":86770,"date":"2025-08-22T05:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/86770\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:50:09","slug":"melbourne-doctor-accused-of-secretly-filming-hundreds-of-hospital-staff-wins-fresh-bail-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/86770\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne doctor accused of secretly filming hundreds of hospital staff wins fresh bail bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A junior doctor accused of secretly filming hundreds of hospital staff has been bailed after a judge found his time on remand could be longer than any ultimate sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Cho, 28, made a second bid for freedom in the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday after his first bail application was refused in July.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with a further 127 offences yesterday, after initially being charged with nine offences including stalking and intentionally recording intimate images.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/1f3fffe6-6704-4e26-942f-cc2383b69bf0.png\"   alt=\"Detectives have allegedly uncovered thousands of new graphic images on a hard drive seized from a doctor charged with secretly recording colleagues in hospital bathrooms. Ryan Cho\"\/>Ryan Cho, 28, made a second bid for freedom in the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday after his first bail application was refused in July. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s alleged he filmed hundreds of workers at three Melbourne hospitals by concealing a phone in a mesh bag inside staff toilets.<\/p>\n<p>Police analysed two mobile phones and a laptop seized from Cho&#8217;s home and allegedly uncovered more than 10,000 videos and images.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s alleged the files were categorised into different folders referencing the Austin Hospital, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Royal Melbourne Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege the material, created between 2021 and 2025, shows staff using the toilet or shower facilities, with their genital and anal areas exposed.<\/p>\n<p>The court was told today that police had taken statements from 200 witnesses but the true number of alleged victims was still unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Russell Hammill claimed Cho should be refused bail because he posed an unacceptable risk of endangering the community and fleeing the jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e51c8444-f5a2-4f12-ba3d-9c2d5da6393d.png\"   alt=\"Ryan Cho\"\/>McMahon also noted Cho had essentially been in solitary confinement since he was remanded in July and he did not have access to a psychologist in custody. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>But Cho&#8217;s barrister Julian McMahon SC argued those risks could be reduced through bail conditions including a ban on him using a phone that was capable of recording.<\/p>\n<p>McMahon also noted Cho had essentially been in solitary confinement since he was remanded in July and he did not have access to a psychologist in custody.<\/p>\n<p>There could also be significant delays in the court proceedings given the amount of material being assessed, McMahon said.<\/p>\n<p>Justice James Elliott today agreed that delay might result in Cho spending more time on remand than any sentence he could ultimately receive.<\/p>\n<p>The judge also found bail conditions including a ban on possessing recording devices and attending hospitals could alleviate any risk to the community.<\/p>\n<p>Cho will walk free from court later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A junior doctor accused of secretly filming hundreds of hospital staff has been bailed after a judge found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-86770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}