Ex-professor guilty of yoga ball murder in retrial

[RTHK] - 01/14/2025

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 (…)



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