CASE ADJOURNED: Hang Tsyr (top) being escorted out of the court.
SIBU: The High Court here yesterday adjourned the case involving the murder of bank manager Stephen Wong to Jan 21 to enable the defence counsels to obtain and study certain documents.
Counsel Orlando Chua told Justice Supang Lian that they had been left in the dark because so far no document had been supplied to them.
“To enable us to marshal the facts, in preparation for the submission on the joint trial, I pray for indulgence to allow some time after the service of the relevant documents to prepare our submission,” he said.
JAN 21 HEARING: (From left) King Guan and Hoe Ing being led away from the courtroom.
Ling Hoe Ing, 24, is charged with murder under Section 392 of the Penal Code, while Ling Hang Tsyr, 31, and her male friend Tiong King Guan, 26, are charged with abetting the murder under Section 109 and Section 302 of the Penal Code, read together with Section 34 of the same code for common intention of the crime.
The murder charge carries the mandatory death sentence.
Tiong also faces three additional charges under Section 115 of the same code, an offence punishable with death, or life imprisonment.
Tiong is represented by Orlando Chua while Hang Tsyr is represented by Anthony Tai, Sempurai Petrus, Lim Heng Choo and Roger Chin.
Hoe Ing, on the other hand, is represented by David Kuok.
Trial has been set for March 18 – 28.
According to earlier press reports, bank manager Stephen Wong, 31, was found dead in a pool of blood in the master bedroom of his house in Ulu Sg Merah about 1.30am on June 14 last year.
His wife Hang Tsyr and their three-year-old son were in the house when police arrived at the scene.
Hang Tsyr reportedly told police that she woke up upon hearing her husband struggling with an intruder, and that the intruder fled when she turned on the lights.
The pathologist’s report said Wong had slash wounds on his neck, stab wounds in the chest and stomach and cuts on both arms.