A Malaysian anaesthesiologist has lost an appeal against his life sentence for murdering his wife and daughter with a gas-filled yoga ball in Hong Kong seven years ago, with three judges dismissing the defence’s assertion that the deaths could have been an accident. The Court of Appeal on Tuesday (June 8) rejected Khaw Kim Sun’s request to quash his convictions.
December 17, 2020
The two women were found unresponsive in the car parked at the Sai O Village bus stop.
South China Morning Post
A Malaysian professor serving a life sentence in Hong Kong for murdering his wife and daughter with a gas-filled yoga ball in 2015 has maintained on appeal that the deaths were “an unfortunate accident”.
Khaw Kim Sun, 55, was jailed in 2018 after a High Court jury of five men and four women unanimously found him guilty of murdering his wife, Wong Siew Fing, 47, and their second child, Lily Khaw Li Ling, 16.
Prosecutors had accused the anaesthesiologist, who pleaded not guilty to murder, of putting a leaking inflatable ball containing carbon monoxide in the boot of a yellow Mini Cooper driven by his wife on May 22, 2015.
Malaysian professor serving life sentence in Hong Kong for murdering wife and daughter with gas-filled yoga ball maintains deaths were ‘an unfortunate accident’
Khaw Kim Sun was jailed in 2018 after a High Court jury found him guilty of murdering his wife Wong Siew Fing and their second child Lily Khaw
Counsel Franco Kuan calls the incident ‘an accident’ and says scientific evidence supports the hypothesis that one of the victims could have placed the ball