THE LAWYER OF KATRINA Halili Friday said that celebrity doctor Hayden Kho would find it hard to prove that the actress had known their sex encounter in a hotel room in 2007 was being taped by a hidden camera.

Raymond Palad cited Kho?s statement in a Senate inquiry on May 28, 2009, in which he supposedly told the senators under oath that the women who appeared in his sex videos had not known they were being taped.

?Now, the defense is saying it?s impossible for Katrina not to have known about the camera because the room was too small. But that?s hard to prove. It?s a double negative. They say it?s impossible for her not to have seen the camera, but Katrina is saying she couldn?t see it,? he said.

Palad said Kho had apparently changed his tune from his earlier statement in the Senate that the women in his sex tapes had not known they were being recorded.

?Senators Jinggoy (Estrada), Bong (Revilla) and Jamby (Madrigal) were questioning him if the women had known, and he said no. I have a transcript (of the Senate inquiry) that?s more than 200 pages long,? the lawyer said.

Earlier, Kho?s lawyer, Lorna Kapunan, said it was impossible for Halili not to have seen the video camera mounted on the TV set, as the room was too small.

Palad said the inspection of the hotel room at the Holiday Inn Galleria in Ortigas Center, which Kho and Halili had booked, was moved anew to June 25.

The ocular inspection had been tentatively set on June 18, but Palad said he told Judge Rodolfo Bonifacio of Pasig Regional Trial Court Branch 159 that they had moved it to June 25, although it would still depend on how the hotel management would respond to the request.

Palad said the parties had written the hotel to ask for its records to check the dates and times Halili and Kho had checked in.

The two parties want to establish the details of where and what time the videotaping occurred and if the sex tape had indeed been taken without Halili?s knowledge.

Kho was accused by Halili of violating the Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Act, when he allegedly uploaded on the Internet videos of their sexual intercourse.
His videos with different women, including Halili, later circulated online.