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Ex-professor guilty of yoga ball murder in retrial

2025-01-14 HKT 17:58
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  • Former professor Khaw Kim Sun was sentenced by the High Court to life in prison following a retrial. File photo: RTHK
    Former professor Khaw Kim Sun was sentenced by the High Court to life in prison following a retrial. File photo: RTHK
A scholar has been convicted of killing his wife and daughter with a yoga ball filled with lethal gas following a retrial, with a High Court judge sentencing him to life imprisonment.

A seven-member jury unanimously found Khaw Kim Sun, a former Chinese University medical professor, guilty of causing the deaths of his wife and second child, after less than four hours of deliberation.

The academic appeared calm when the verdict was handed down and chose not to make a mitigation plea.

He had been accused of putting a yoga ball filled with carbon monoxide in the boot of a Mini Cooper in 2015, with the gas leaking out and killing the pair.

Khaw was first convicted of two counts of murder in 2018 and sentenced to life behind bars.

In 2023, the top court quashed his murder conviction and ordered a retrial, after ruling the initial trial judge had misdirected the jury.

During the retrial that began in November last year, Khaw opted to defend himself and claimed he had bought carbon monoxide for an experiment.

But prosecutors challenged his claims, saying the experiment was a "sham" to hide his real motive of possessing the lethal gas.

Ex-professor guilty of yoga ball murder in retrial

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