A husband who used a robot vacuum cleaner to catch his wife cheating has been sent to jail after a court found he invaded her privacy.<\/p>\n
The Taiwan-based man secretly activated the camera on the robot vacuum and captured footage of his wife with another man inside their holiday home.<\/p>\n
He then used the footage in divorce proceedings after they were married in 2021.<\/p>\n
But while his wife was ordered to pay him damages over the affair, the husband was later slapped with a five-month jail sentence for secretly filming her.<\/p>\n
The extraordinary case began after the husband became suspicious when he found a toothbrush that belonged to neither him nor his wife at their holiday home.<\/p>\n
The husband then checked CCTV footage from outside the property and allegedly discovered a man repeatedly dropping his wife home.<\/p>\n
Months later, in December 2023, the husband remotely activated the robot vacuum from his parents\u2019 home, where the couple lived.<\/p>\n
He reportedly attempted to turn on the device\u2019s audio function but instead activated the live camera.<\/p>\n
The camera caught his wife with her lover, according to the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n
The husband then recorded the pair undressing and walking naked around the holiday home.<\/p>\n
Armed with the footage, he launched divorce proceedings and sought more than $88,000 in damages from his wife.<\/p>\n
A civil court found her affair had \u201cgone beyond the bounds of friendship\u201d and ordered her to pay her former partner more than $41,000.<\/p>\n
But the bizarre twist was far from over.<\/p>\n
His wife later took him to the criminal court, accusing him of invading her privacy by secretly recording her.<\/p>\n
The husband argued the footage had already been accepted as evidence in the civil case.<\/p>\n
The criminal court rejected his defence, ruling that marriage did not override an individual\u2019s right to privacy.<\/p>\n
The husband was sentenced to five months behind bars and ordered to pay his former wife almost $6620.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A husband who used a robot vacuum cleaner to catch his wife cheating has been sent to jail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23800,48,43,44,41,39,42,40,1346],"class_list":["post-877156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-courts-justice","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877156","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=877156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}