A jailed Malaysian anaesthesiologist in Hong Kong has filed an appeal against his conviction of murdering his wife and teenage daughter with a yoga ball filled with lethal gas in 2015, marking yet another attempt to clear his name.
Former university professor Khaw Kim Sun, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, filed the application on Tuesday with the Court of Appeal against the trial judge’s ruling, according to a document seen by the Post.
A seven-member High Court jury last month unanimously found the 60-year-old guilty of causing the deaths of his wife, Wong Siew Fing, 47, and their second child, Lily Khaw Li Ling, 16, on May 22, 2015.
The two died of carbon monoxide poisoning after a leaky inflatable yoga ball filled with a lethal amount of the gas was placed in the boot of Khaw’s Mini Cooper car, which the pair were riding.
Khaw, who was previously with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), was convicted of two counts of murder after a trial in 2018, but filed an appeal to clear his name while serving a life sentence.
The Court of Final Appeal quashed his conviction in 2023 after ruling that the trial judge had misdirected the jury.
