Yoga ball murder trial: Malaysian professor’s lover was his children’s tutor, Hong Kong court hears
Close friend reveals wife Wong Siew Fing’s deteriorating mental state and tells High Court marriage had been an unhappy one ‘for some time’
The lover of a Malaysian professor – accused of using a toxic yoga ball to murder his wife and daughter – was his children’s tutor, the High Court in Hong Kong heard on Friday.
Khaw Kim Sun, 53, has denied murdering his wife, Wong Siew Fing, 47, and daughter Lily Khaw Li Ling, 16, who both died of carbon monoxide poisoning on May 22, 2015.
Wong’s close friend Foong Wai Yee took to the witness box on Friday and revealed the wife had first complained about her marriage around 2010 or 2011.
“The marriage hadn’t been a happy one for some time before her death,” said Foong, whose children attended the same playgroup as the Malaysian family.
Foong said Wong once revealed her husband had a new girlfriend and identified the lover as Shara Lee, a tutor who taught Khaw’s children at their home between 2007 and 2008.
The prosecutors had earlier mentioned Lee as an assistant in a fake research project involving rabbits that Khaw set up to obtain the carbon monoxide.
