Hong Kong yoga ball murder trial hears Malaysian professor was with 250 students the day his wife and daughter were found dead
Khaw Kim Sun had been attending a university event just two hours before a passer-by found the victims unresponsive in their car, his lawyer tells court
A Malaysian professor accused of murdering his wife and daughter with a gas-filled yoga ball in Hong Kong was tied up in a meeting with more than 250 students on the day the pair were found dead, his lawyer said at his murder trial on Tuesday.
Khaw Kim Sun had been attending a university event at 1.30pm on May 22, 2015, just two hours before a passer-by found his wife, Wong Siew Fing, 47, and daughter, Lily Khaw Li Ling, 16, unresponsive in their car on a roadside, defence counsel Gerard McCoy SC told the High Court.
The barrister did not say how long the function had lasted, but the court previously learned from a recorded interview Khaw did with police that it was a three-hour student assessment session.
During the event, 255 third-year medical students presented projects, the barrister said, citing an email Khaw, a specialist in anaesthesiology, and his colleagues had circulated.
The evidence was presented as McCoy cross-examined Gavin Joynt, Khaw’s supervisor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The chairman of the department of anaesthesia and intensive care was called as a prosecution witness.
