Khaw Kim-sun, former associate professor of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy at the Faculty of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was unanimously convicted of the murder of his wife and daughter in a retrial at The Court of Final Appeal yesterday (14/1). Khaw was retried after he was accused of placing a yoga ball filled with carbon monoxide in the trunk of his wife’s car and releasing poisonous gas to kill his wife and second daughter on Sai Sha Road, Sai Kung, in 2015.
The car in which two women were found slumped and dying on Sai Sha Road
Khaw denied murder. The appeal was granted by the Court of Final Appeal in November 2023. After 41 days of trial, the judge completed his guidance at the High Court yesterday morning. The jury of four men and three women left the court before noon to deliberate for more than three hours and unanimously convicted Khaw of two counts of murder.
Khaw took the decision behaved calmly and did not say anything. The judge sentenced him to life imprisonment in accordance with the law.
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