Yoga ball murder trial: putting deadly gas in ball was extremely dangerous and a crazy thing for Malaysian professor to do, expert tells Hong Kong court
Medical scientist tells jurors in Khaw Kim Sun’s case that releasing carbon monoxide in courtroom could wipe everyone out, while defendant’s friend calls him ‘very clever man who knows how to take care of things’
Carrying carbon monoxide in a yoga ball is “crazy”, a medical scientist told the trial of a Malaysian professor accused of using the method to murder his wife and daughter.
On Friday, pharmacologist Nicholas Buckley went on to half-jokingly warn lawyers, jurors, and spectators of the lethal consequences of releasing such a device inside the High Court courtroom where Khaw Kim Sun’s trial is taking place.
“It could wipe us all out,” he said.
Calling the idea “extremely dangerous”, Buckley went on to characterise the transporting of the deadly gas in such a fashion as “a crazy thing to do”.
The University of Sydney professor, who flew in from Australia, was called as an expert witness by the defence, who are looking to rebut the prosecution’s case that Khaw used a gas-filled yoga ball to kill his wife, Wong Siew Fing, 47, and daughter Lily Khaw Li Ling, 16, on May 22, 2015.
