Malaysian professor sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of Hong Kong yoga ball murders
Khaw Kim Sun, 53, has been convicted of killing wife and teenage daughter with deadly gas
A Malaysian professor was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for killing his wife and daughter using a gas-filled yoga ball as his murder weapon in a “premeditated and calculated” plot to get his hands on properties the couple jointly owned.
After almost seven hours of deliberation at the High Court, a jury of five men and four women unanimously found Khaw Kim Sun, 53, guilty of murdering his wife, Wong Siew Fing, 47, and their second child, Lily Khaw Li Ling, 16, three years ago.
Mrs Justice Judianna Barnes Wai-ling stipulated the mandatory life sentence for murder, telling Khaw: “It is shocking that a highly educated and successful man would conjure up such a calculated method to get rid of his wife.”
The professor stood to inherit his wife’s share of several properties the couple held through a company, the judge said.
“There is only one sentence to pass,” she added.
Khaw’s three other children – the eldest in university and the other two still in secondary school – will now be without both their parents, with the professor being put behind bars.
On hearing the guilty verdicts, Khaw turned towards the children in the public gallery as they began to weep. He shook his head repeatedly when the judge began summarising the case.
