Malaysian professor ‘killed wife and daughter with yoga ball leaking carbon monoxide that was left in car boot in Hong Kong’
Anaesthesiology specialist Khaw Kim Sun set up research project with ‘no value’ to obtain carbon monoxide he later used in murder plot, High Court hears
A Malaysian professor who was having an affair filled a yoga ball with dangerous gas to kill his wife and daughter in a “deliberate and calculated” murder plot, a Hong Kong court heard on Wednesday.
Khaw Kim Sun, 53, a specialist in anaesthesiology, put the inflatable ball containing carbon monoxide in the boot of a yellow Mini Cooper driven by his wife, Wong Siew Fing, 47, on May 22, 2015, prosecutors told the High Court.
Teen whose girlfriend was found dead in Taipei faces money laundering trial
His 16-year-old daughter Khaw Li Ling was in the passenger seat.
Prosecutor Andrew Bruce SC told the jury of five men and four women that Khaw set up a research project with “no value” to obtain the carbon monoxide he later used in the murder plot and was assisted in this project by the student he was having an affair with.
His colleagues at Chinese University’s department of anaesthesia and intensive care spotted Khaw filling two yoga balls with carbon monoxide. He claimed he wanted to test its purity and also told them he was experimenting with the effects of the gas on rabbits.
