Murder case adjourned to Dec 7

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FURTHER REMANDED: Hang Tsyr (handcuffed) is consoled by her counsel, Roger Ching after the hearing.

SIBU: A magistrates’ court here yesterday adjourned for the last time the hearing of a case, which involves the killing of bank manager Stephen Wong, to Dec 7.

The accused persons in the case are Ling Hang Tsyr, 31, Tiong King Guan, 26 and Ling Hoe Ing, 24.

They were brought to the court yesterday, where deputy public prosecutor told the court that he had yet to receive some of the chemist documents from the Forensic Department and sanction to continue with the prosecution.

Hoe Ing is tentatively charged with murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code, while Hang Tsyr and Tiong are charged with abetting the murder under Section 109 of the Penal Code, read with Section 302 and Section 34 for the common intention of the crime.

The murder charge carries the mandatory death sentence.

Tiong was represented by Orlando Chua, Hang Tsyr by Anthony Tai and Roger Ching while Hoe Ing was unrepresented.

Earlier press reports said that police found Wong’s body in a pool of blood in the master bedroom of his house at Ulu Sungai Merah Road at 1.30am on June 14

The pathologist had later said the 31-year-old had slash wounds on his neck and was also stabbed in the chest and stomach. He also sustained defensive wounds on both arms.

Only his wife and their three-year-old son were said to be in the house when the murder occurred.

Hang Tsyr reportedly told police then, that she woke up upon hearing her husband struggling with an intruder
and that the intruder had fled when she turned on the lights.