SIBU: A restaurant owner yesterday testified at the trial of a murder at RTM Road where four members of a family were killed last year.
On the third day of the hearing, restaurant owner George Tiong told the High Court he went to the house where the murder took place, and saw blood oozing from the back door of the house.
He said he was cooking when Li Xiao Lan, the wife of the murdered head of the family called out to him for help from the rooftop of a corner unit terrace house.
“I was cooking in the kitchen of my restaurant at that time when I heard her call. She told me a thief had entered her house downstairs and asked me to go over to her house.
“She also told me her husband had gone downstairs and she did not hear anything anymore after that. So, I went to her house,” he told the court.
He said Xiao Lan was very nervous and was about to cry when she talked to him.
Tiong told the court he could not enter the house as the front gate was locked and he could not see what was happening inside as the front door was closed.
He went to the back of the house but could not see the inside, so went to the front of the house and called out but got no response.
“After that, people told me that there was blood flowing from the back door of the house, so I went to check it out,” he said.
After seeing this, he went to the front of the house and was told someone had already called the police.
When the police arrived, he intended to go inside the house to see, but was stopped by the police, so returned to his restaurant.
Another prosecution witness testifying yesterday was Corporal Edward Nyanyi who drove the police vehicle to the crime scene but did not make a physical inspection of the crime scene.
Assistant medical officer from Emergency and Trauma Unit, Sarikei Hospital Loh Tuong Ing told the court that he received an emergency call at 8.45am and went to the house at RTM Road on Jan 3, 2012.
He was based at the Emergency and Trauma Unit of Sibu Hospital.
On arrival, he was brought by the police to a room downstairs where he saw a boy lying on the floor with blood from his head. There was also blood on the floor, he added.
He said the boy was unconscious, was not breathing spontaneously and had no pulse.
Loh said he tried to resuscitate him but to no avail.
The same happened to the other three victims, he said.
A boy upstairs who was seriously injured was unconscious, and he pressed the wounds on the boy’s head using a bandage to stop the bleeding.
He attached an IV Branula line on the boy’s hand and other necessary medical procedures before taking him to Sibu Hospital.
Ling Tong Hock, a 36-year-old timber and shipping businessman, was brutally murdered along with his mother, Leong Nyuk Lan, 76, and his two children, David Ling Chei Qi, 10, and Amy Ling Zi Jiun, 7, in their double-storey terrace house at RTM Road on Jan 3, 2012.
Ling’s wife, Li Xiao Lan, a 28-year-old Chinese national, escaped the attack while Ling’s eight-year-old son Kelvin Ling survived the brutal attack.
The accused, surnamed Song, faces four tentative charges for murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code, and one tentative charge under Section 307 of the same code for attempted murder.
Each charge under Section 302 carries a mandatory death sentence while Section 307 provides for a maximum 20 years’ jail.
Song was represented by Darren Ling.
Li Xiao Lan will testify today.