Malaysian professor told police he thought daughter had committed suicide when they came to arrest him
Police officer testifies that Khaw Kim Sun, who is accused of murdering wife and daughter, told him he thought pressure over school work may have caused teenager to kill herself
A professor told police his daughter might have committed suicide because of stress when he was arrested on suspicion of murdering her and her mother with a gas-filled yoga ball, a court heard on Tuesday.
Khaw Kim Sun, 53, who has denied killing 16-year-old Lily Khaw Li Ling, and Wong Siew Fing, 47, said he and his wife had put the teenager under too much pressure.
Testifying in High Court, police sergeant Lam Kam-cheung said he had arrested Khaw Kim Sun outside his office at Chinese University – where Khaw was an associate professor in anaesthesiology – in May 2016.
The sergeant told the court that when he arrested Khaw Kim Sun on suspicion of murdering the pair by carbon monoxide poisoning, the defendant said: “I wanted to use the yoga ball to kill rats. There are so many rats in my home.
“I do not know why on May 22 [2015, the day the pair died] the yoga ball would end up in the car. Perhaps Lily wanted to commit suicide.”
