Hong Kong | Doctor gets life term over yoga ball killings

Malaysian citizen Khaw Kim Sun is escorted in a prison bus leaving the court after sentenced to life in prison

An anesthesiologist convicted of killing his wife and daughter by placing a yoga ball that leaked carbon monoxide in their car has been sentenced to life in prison in Hong Kong.

Malaysian citizen Khaw Kim Sun, 53, had become estranged from his wife, Wong Siew Fing, 47, and their four children, although they continued to live together while he had an affair with a student.

A jury of five men and four women found him guilty at Hong Kong’s High Court after seven hours of deliberation Wednesday.

“It is shocking that a highly educated and successful man would conjure up such a calculated method to get rid of his wife,” judge Judianna Barnes Wai- ling was quoted in media as telling Khaw.

Khaw was accused of putting the gas-filled yoga ball in the trunk of a Mini Cooper driven by his wife, Wong Siew-fung, on May 22, 2015.

Wong and their 16-year-old daughter were found unconscious in the car parked at a bus stop about an hour after leaving home. They were later declared dead from severe carbon monoxide poisoning, although the vehicle showed no defects such as a leaky emissions system. AP

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