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9 September, 2024
A yoga ball brought in for evidence. The accused has denied filling a yoga ball with carbon monoxide and placing it inside the family’s yellow Mini Cooper to kill his wife and daughter. Photo: Dickson Lee
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Hong Kong yoga ball murder case: ‘lethal gas was to kill shrews lured by ham’

Malaysian academic Khaw Kim Sun says he brought home carbon monoxide from his laboratory to conduct his own pest control.

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Accused in Hong Kong yoga ball murder case dismisses lawyer, defends himself

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Hong Kong yoga ball murder case: accused ‘wanted divorce, then said no to wife’

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Ex-professor accused of using ‘sham’ experiment in Hong Kong yoga ball murders

Former anaesthesiologist Khaw Kim Sun, 60, is facing a retrial at the High Court for allegedly murdering his wife and their daughter.

Police bring the evidence related to the case out of the court after the initial hearing last year. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong courts

Professor back in Hong Kong court for retrial in yoga ball murder case

In a rare move, judge reveals to jury that former anaesthesiologist Khaw Kim Sun was earlier convicted of murder but decision was overturned on appeal.

Crime in Hong Kong

Professor wins appeal against murder convictions in Hong Kong yoga ball case

Court orders retrial of case concerning death of Khaw Kim Sun’s wife and daughter from carbon monoxide poisoning.

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Professor loses appeal against life sentence for yoga ball murders in Hong Kong

Rejecting all 44 grounds of appeal, court held that Khaw Kim Sun had undergone ‘a thoroughly fair trial’, with ‘cogent and compelling evidence’ to justify the jury’s verdict.

The Malaysian anaesthesiologist lost the appeal against his life sentence, after the court rejected all 44 grounds of appeal and held that he had undergone “a thoroughly fair trial”. Photo: Dickson Lee
Crime in Hong Kong

Explainer | Yoga ball murder: professor who killed wife, daughter deregistered by medical body

Anaesthesiologist Khaw Kim Sun said to be ‘unfit to be a member of the medical profession’.

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Gerard McCoy: barrister who defended dissidents and murderers dead at 63

Milkshake murderer Nancy Kissel, British banker Rurik Jutting, and yoga ball killer Khaw Kim Sun all among McCoy’s clients, but he was also constitutional law expert and well known for human rights cases, defending Occupy ringleaders and others.

Podcast: Inside the yoga ball murders and how police solved one of Hong Kong’s most calculated crimes - Long Reads

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Malaysian professor appeals against conviction for yoga ball murders

Khaw Kim Sun, 53, killed his wife, Wong Siew Fing, 47, and their second child, Lily Khaw Li Ling, 16, with deadly gas in 2015.

Khaw Kim Sun, 53, killed his wife, Wong Siew Fing, 47, and their second child, Lily Khaw Li Ling, 16, with deadly gas in 2015
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Exclusive | Yoga ball murder victim's sister recalls their last conversation

The sisters spoke by phone about plan to bring children to France and Spain just one day before tragedy struck

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Exclusive | Yoga ball murderer was a manipulative, bullying husband: sister-in-law

Wong Siew Fong questions moral standards of jailed Malaysian professor Khaw Kim Sun, the man her murdered sister fell for.

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Exclusive | ‘Professor Kim’, Hong Kong’s yoga ball murderer, was my landlord

Khaw Kim Sun was found guilty on Wednesday of murdering his wife and daughter using a gas-filled yoga ball, in a case that has gripped the city. A former Lantau resident tells how she came to rent his decrepit 1,400 sq ft house in the tiny village of Tong Fuk, and how Khaw kept up the pretence of a popular and sociable family man struggling to deal with personal tragedy.

Khaw Kim Sun at ‘Tropicana’. Photo: Handout
Crime in Hong Kong

Yoga ball murder victim's diary reveals she blamed herself for marriage demise

Wong Siew Fing expresses deep regret at the failure of her relationship with Khaw Kim Sun, two years before Chinese University professor murdered her with carbon monoxide.

Wong Siew Fing. Photo: Handout
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Revealed: how Hong Kong police solved yoga ball murder

Malaysian professor Khaw Kim Sun was found guilty on Wednesday of murdering his wife and daughter by a unanimous jury verdict. This is how police came to solve one of the city’s most intelligent murder cases in recent times.

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At the heart of yoga ball murder case was a deeply unhappy marriage

Love triangle, while not relied upon by prosecutors, was a key feature of trial that saw Khaw Kim Sun, 53, convicted of killing his wife and teenage daughter with deadly gas.

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Life in prison for professor found guilty of Hong Kong yoga ball murders

Khaw Kim Sun, 53, has been convicted of killing wife and teenage daughter with deadly gas.

Wong Siew Fing and her daughter Lily Khaw were found in their Mini Cooper. Photo: Edmond So

Don’t let emotions get in way, judge tells jury in yoga ball murder trial

In trial of Malaysian professor accused of killing wife and daughter, judge says main issue is: ‘Who put the yoga ball in the Mini Cooper and why?’

Alibi, ‘nerd mind’ prove accused didn’t commit yoga ball murders, court told

Accused Khaw Kim Sun had suggested his wife got caught up in teenage daughter Lily’s suicide – but defence lawyer said it could all have been an accident

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Professor in yoga ball murder trial ‘avant-garde’, court hears

Former colleague portrays anaesthesiologist accused of killing wife and daughter as a much sought-after doctor willing to push boundaries.

Khaw Kim Sun, 53, is on trial for murder. Photo: Handout
Crime in Hong Kong

Filling yoga ball with deadly gas a ‘crazy thing to do’, expert tells 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’.

Witness Dr Victor Cheong Mun Khan leaves the High Court after testifying. Photo: Edmond So
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Yoga ball murder trial hears defendant was with students that day

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.

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Yoga ball murder trial told professor’s rabbit test was ‘dubious’

Department head at Chinese University, Gavin Joynt, tells High Court he would have sent Malaysian professor Khaw Kim Sun’s rabbit test proposal back for major revision, while another academic calls experiments ‘not very useful’.

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Killer gas in car during yoga ball deaths ‘35 times dangerous level’

Chemist tells High Court during Khaw Kim Sun’s murder trial that simulated concentrations were so high he had to get a different reader – and even that one could not read it all.

Wong performed simulations on the same car which Khaw is alleged to have used to kill his wife and daughter. Photo: Edmond So.

Yoga ball murder trial: teenager never spoke of suicide, friend says

School pal tells court Lily Khaw was her most ‘rational’ friend and on the day she died did not want to go out for a burger as she had homework to do.

Khaw Kim Sun is taken to the High Court. Photo: Winson Wong
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‘Leave my lover out of murder case’, accused in yoga ball trial told police

Video interview played for jury shows defendant claiming she did not have a ‘full role’ in the experiments that prosecutors said were set up as a ruse.

Hong Kong courts

Yoga ball trial: professor told police he thought daughter killed herself

Police officer testifies that Khaw Kim Sun, who is accused of murdering wife and daughter, told him he thought pressure over school work may have caused teenager to commit suicide.

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