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…
A former university professor brought two yoga balls filled with lethal gas to his Hong Kong home to exterminate shrews that had been attracted by the smell of Spanish ham, a court has heard in the trial over the alleged murder of his wife and daughter. Anaesthesiologist Khaw Kim Sun, 60, told the High Court…
A Malaysian ex-university professor in Hong Kong accused of murdering his wife and daughter has rejected prosecutors’ claims that an animal experiment he was carrying out with carbon monoxide was merely a ruse to obtain the deadly gas that killed them nine years ago via a yoga ball. Anesthesiologist Khaw Kim Sun, 60, made the…
A former university professor in Hong Kong asked his wife for a divorce but subsequently refused her request for one before allegedly murdering her with a gas-filled yoga ball nine years ago, a court heard on Friday. The High Court retrial heard testimony about the unhappy marriage between Malaysian Khaw Kim Sun and his wife…
A former university professor allegedly devised a “sham” animal experiment in Hong Kong to obtain lethal gas to murder his estranged wife by releasing it from a yoga ball inside her car nine years ago, a court retrial has heard. Prosecutors said on Thursday that Malaysian Khaw Kim Sun, 60, was behind the “deliberate” and…
A former university professor is back in court for a retrial for allegedly murdering his wife and daughter with a gas-filled yoga ball in Hong Kong nine years ago, with the judge warning jurors to avoid reading “inflammatory” social media comments previously made about the defendant. A seven-member jury was empanelled at the High Court…