Ling: No reason to plan husband’s murder
SIBU: Ling Hang Tsyr, who is charged with abetting in the killing of her husband Wong Jing Kui, told the High Court here yesterday there was no reason for her to plan her husband’s murder.
The 36-year-old said this during the re-examination-in-chief by her defence counsel Roger Chin, who asked Ling if she had instructed one Andrew Tiong to liaise with four others on the murder plan.
She answered affirmatively: “Absolutely no such thing. I have no reason to do so.”
Andrew Tiong King Guan is jointly charged with Ling over Wong’s murder.
The four others mentioned by Chin have turned prosecution witnesses. One of them, Ling Hoe Ing, was the principal offender in the case who has been jailed.
When another defence counsel, Lim Heng Choo, asked why she disagreed with the deputy public prosecutor Mohd Fillany Siji, who had put to her that she had good reason to murder Wong as she and Tiong could benefit from Wong’s money and property, Ling said she treasured her marriage and would not do anything for that kind of benefit.
Ling added that she had, in fact, not received anything after her husband’s demise.
“All this while, I had been trying to save my marriage and I definitely would not want to be a widow. I love my kid very much and I would like him to have a father to grow up with,” she told the court.
She also told the court that she and Tiong were only friends and there was no intimacy between them. She never talked about her marriage with Tiong and never had any plan with him to murder her husband.
Ling and Tiong, 30, who is still at large, are charged with abetment in the murder of Wong, who was a bank manager at the time, on June 14, 2012 around 1.30am at Wong’s house in Ulu Sg Merah.
They are charged under Section 109 and Section 302 of the Penal Code, read together with Section 34 of the same Code, which provide for a mandatory death sentence upon conviction.
Ling’s father, Ling Kuo Song, 64, also testified yesterday.