SIBU: Police officer ASP Yeoh Chun Shyan told the High Court here yesterday that a video
clip from a CCTV camera showed the wife of the slain businessman had climbed out of her bedroom window.
He said the clip did not show anyone else entering or walking towards the upstairs window.
Yeoh was testifying at the trial of the 17-year-old boy charged with murder and attempted murder. Timber and shipping businessman Ling Tong Hock, 36, his mother Leong Nyuk Lan, 76, and his two children David Ling Chei Qi, 10, and Amy Ling Zi Jiun, 7, were found murdered between 6am and 7.30am on Jan 3 last year at their double-storey terraced house in RTM Road.
Ling’s eight-year-old son Kelvin Ling was also attacked but not killed.
Ling’s wife Li Xian Lan, 28, a Chinese national, escaped the attack through her bedroom window. Replying to the defence counsel Darren Ling, Yeoh said he had watched part of the CCTV recordings with Inspector Heng.
Yeoh said he received a call that fateful morning, informing him a house had been broken into.
“I did attempt to clarify the identity of the person who called me. He told me he stayed nearby but did not mention his name.
“As soon as I received his call, I together with Corporal Jerry went to the house concerned where there was a crowd of people gathering,” he recalled.
He said at that particular moment he did not notice anyone in the crowd carrying a hammer trying to break the front gate of the house.
DC: At that particular moment, do you agree with me that you did not pay attention to the crowd of people outside the gate of that house?
Yeoh: I agree.
DC: In other words, could you agree with me you were with that crowd of people when you first arrived?
Yeoh: Yes.
DC: When you managed to get into the compound of that house, you saw through the sliding glass door a body lying motionless in the kitchen?
Yeoh: Yes, but could not see the body clearly.
DC: You were with other relatives of the victims in the house?
Yeoh: Yes.
DC: Since the front gate was locked, did you know how they had got into the compound of the house?
Yeoh: Same way as I did.
DC: Since you and Corporal Jerry could not enter that house because the grill was locked, therefore both of you entered the house through a window upstairs.
Yeoh: Yes.
DC: And when you managed to gain access to the house through the window upstairs, you checked room to room upstairs?
Yeoh: Yes.
DC: At that material time, did you check the third bedroom upstairs?
Yeoh: It was locked at that time.
DC: Since it was locked at that time and in order to make sure that all the bedrooms were secure; did you try to make any forced entry into the third bedroom?
Yeoh: I did not.
DC: Since the third bedroom was locked and you did not attempt to break in, you assume that all the bedrooms upstairs were secure?
Yeoh: Not really.
DC: Since you did not gain any access to the third bedroom, you did not know whether there was anyone inside that bedroom.
Yeoh: Yes.
To another question, Yeoh said while inside the house, he took keys from the living hall to unlock the front gate.
He said he did not notice any damage on the front gate when he opened it with the key.
He said after opening the front gate, he let the paramedics enter the house.
Yeoh said he was not with the paramedics all the time while they attended to the victims and that Corporal Jerry was helping to prevent other people from entering the house.
Hearing continues on May 30.