Retrial of yoga ball murders scheduled on Nov. 4

The retrial for former Chinese University associate professor Khaw Kim Sun over the yoga ball murders of his wife and daughter has been scheduled on November 4. 

The retrial is expected last for 30 days as the case was heard by deputy judge Brian Keith in the High Court on Wednesday. 

The retrial was ordered by the Court of Final Appeal last November after five judges, including Chief Justice Andrew Cheung Kui-nung, quashed Khaw’s murder convictions. 

Khaw, 58, also a senior medical officer at the Prince of Wales Hospital, was convicted on two counts of murder in 2018 after a trial before High Court judge Judianna Barnes and a jury. 

He allegedly murdered wife Wong Siew-fing, 47, and daughter Lily Khaw Li-ling, 16, by placing an unplugged yoga ball filled with carbon monoxide in the trunk of his wife’s car on May 22, 2015. 

Khaw was represented by barrister Andrew Raffell in the court today, while the prosecution was represented by Jonathan Man Tak-ho, deputy director of public prosecutions.