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Anesthesiologist who murdered his estranged wife and daughter through carbon monoxide poisoning, jailed for life – Professor Khaw Kim Sun compromised the ball to leak into the vehicle and kill his family

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Hong Kong based anesthesiologist is found guilty of killing his wife and 16-year-old daughter by placing a carbon monoxide-filled yoga ball inside their car&comma; on May 22&comma; 2015<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Khaw Kim Sun&comma; a 53-year-old <&sol;strong><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Malaysian citizen<&sol;strong><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>&comma; was convicted of double-homicide by a Hong Kong High Court on Wednesday<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Khaw received a life sentence for killing Wong Siew Fing&comma; 47&comma; and their 16-year-old daughter&comma; Lily Khaw Li Ling<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>He&&num;8217&semi;d become estranged from his wife and their four children&comma; however they continued to live together while he carried on an affair with a student&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>He decided to kill his wife because she would not grant him a divorce&comma; prosecutors said <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>He had taken carbon monoxide from the teaching hospital where he worked &&num;8211&semi; Witnesses saw the associate professor at Hong Kong&&num;8217&semi;s Chinese University filling two balls with carbon monoxide&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>He allegedly told another daughter to stay home on the day he poisoned his wife and eldest daughter<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img-group floatRHS">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-299519" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;09&sol;Khaw-Kim-Sun-5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Khaw Kim Sun 5" width&equals;"886" height&equals;"528" &sol;>Khaw Kim Sun &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; an anesthesiologist&comma; was sentenced to life in prison&comma; Wednesday in Hong Kong &comma; after he was convicted for killing his wife and teen daughter by carbon monoxide poisoning<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">An anesthesiologist convicted of killing his wife and her 16-year-old daughter&comma; Lily Khaw Li Ling&period; by placing a yoga ball that leaked carbon monoxide in their car has been sentenced to life in prison in Hong Kong&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;After  a 53-year-old doctor in Hong Kong&comma; Khaw Kim Sun&comma; had become estranged from his wife&comma; Wong Siew-Fung&comma; 47&comma; and their four children&comma; however they continued to live together while he carried on an affair with a student&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Khaw&comma; a Malaysian citizen practising in Hong Kong was convicted Wednesday after seven hours of jury deliberation&period; He had decided to kill his wife because she would not grant him a divorce&comma; prosecutors said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;It is shocking that a highly educated and successful man would conjure up such a calculated method to get rid of his wife&comma;&&num;8217&semi; judge Judianna Barnes Wai-Ling told Khaw&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-299512" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;09&sol;Wong-Siew-fung-right-and-her-16-year-old-daughter-left-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Wong Siew-fung &lbrack;right&rsqb;&rpar; and her 16-year-old daughter &lbrack;left&rsqb; 1&period;jpg" width&equals;"666" height&equals;"602" &sol;><strong>Wong Siew Fing seen &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; with her 16-year-old daughter&comma; Lily Khaw Li Ling&period; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; both died after they were found unconscious in the car parked at a bus stop about an hour after leaving home&period; She reportedly was unwilling to grant her estranged husband a divorce<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-299520" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;09&sol;Wong-Siew-fungs-car-4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Wong Siew-fung's car 4" width&equals;"887" height&equals;"525" &sol;>The yellow Mini Cooper &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; is seen parked at the bus stop where the suspect&&num;8217&semi;s wife&comma; Wong Siew-Fung and her teen daughter&comma; Lily Khaw Li Ling&period; were found slumped&comma; unconscious in the vehicle<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<div>Khaw was accused of putting the gas-filled yoga ball in the trunk of a Mini Cooper driven by his wife&comma; Wong Siew-Fung&comma; on May 22&comma; 2015&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Wong and their 16-year-old daughter were found unconscious in the car parked at a bus stop about an hour after leaving home&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Both Wong and her daughter were found unresponsive in their car two hours later by a jogger and others&comma; who called an ambulance for them&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It was too late for doctors to save their lives when they arrived at Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin&comma; the very hospital Khaw Kim Sun worked at&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;They were later declared dead from severe carbon monoxide poisoning&comma; although their vehicle showed no defects such as a leaky emissions system&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-299517" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;09&sol;Wong-Siew-fungs-car-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Wong Siew-fung's car 3" width&equals;"699" height&equals;"426" &sol;><strong>Police forensics officer searches and collects evidence from the car where Khaw&comma; reportedly planted a yoga ball filled with carbon monoxide compromised to leak into the vehicle and kill his estranged wife and daughter<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>The case&comma; initially puzzling to Hong Kong police&comma; was broken open when the presence of the deflated yoga ball drew suspicion&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But when the trial came to an end&comma; puzzling loose ends remained including how the yoga ball ended up in the car&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Significantly&comma; although were security cameras installed in the family home&comma;  they were not working around the time of the murders&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>Khaw was arrested in September after colleagues from the teaching hospital where he worked spoke with police&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Khaw reportedly obtained the carbon monoxide from the hospital&period; Witnesses said they saw the associate professor at Hong Kong&&num;8217&semi;s Chinese University filling two balls with carbon monoxide&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-299515" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;09&sol;Wong-Siew-fungs-car-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Wong Siew-fung's car 1" width&equals;"748" height&equals;"402" &sol;><strong>Various items&comma; including a deflated yoga ball&comma; were found in the trunk of the car where the victims were found dead at Sai Sha Road in Hong Kong&&num;8217&semi;s Sai Kung district<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<div>Khaw denied committing murder&comma; but admitted to taking the gas home&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He told colleagues he wanted to &&num;8216&semi;test its purity&&num;8217&semi; and its effects on rabbits&comma; but later contradicted himself he told police he took the gas home  to exterminate the  rats infesting his village house&period; He then suggested Lily somehow might have used it to commit suicide&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;His lawyer&comma; Gerard McCoy&comma; presented an alternative version in court&comma; saying Lily&comma; who had a phobia of bugs&comma; used the gas to kill insects&comma; unaware of the potential fatal consequences&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">The defence also argued Khaw had an alibi&period; With a concentration so high it could cause someone to pass out in minutes&comma; the defence argued&period; It would require the ball to have been planted right before the car was driven away&comma; still leaking the gas&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;That would clear Khaw from being the perpetrator&comma; because he left home at about noon for a university seminar&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-299513" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;09&sol;Khaw-Kim-sun-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Khaw Kim-sun 2&period;JPG" width&equals;"694" height&equals;"615" &sol;><strong>Khaw Kim-sun &lbrack;center in a black hood&rsqb;&comma; on trial for killing his wife and daughter&comma; being escorted by police at Ma On Shan Police Station in Hong Kong<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-299514" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;09&sol;Khaw-Kim-Sun-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Khaw Kim Sun 3" width&equals;"699" height&equals;"497" &sol;>Convicted killer <strong>Khaw Kim Sun covers his face as he leaves in a prison bus&comma; after being sentenced to a life time behind bars in Hong Kong<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">This was debunked by a domestic helper employed by the family&comma; who testified that they had no rodent problem&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;While Khaw stood to inherit considerable amounts of property co-owned with Wong following her death&comma; there was no apparent motive for killing his daughter&comma; leading to speculation that her death was unintentional&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; he had allegedly told his younger daughter to finish her homework at home&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Khaw&&num;8217&semi;s other children reportedly cried when the verdict was announced&comma; while he only shook his head&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-caption-text"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-caption-overlay"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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