A former lecturer was sentenced to serve 10 years in jail by the Seremban High Court after she pleaded guilty to a charge of causing the death of her husband.
Lau Seck Yan, 58, did not contest the charge under Section 304(a) of the Penal Code for culpable homicide not amounting to murder after it was read to her before judge Rohani Ismail on Monday (May 26).
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Lau Seck Yan, 58, did not contest the charge under Section 304(a) of the Penal Code for culpable homicide not amounting to murder after it was read to her before judge Rohani Ismail on Monday (May 26).
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00:00A former lecturer was sentenced to serve 10 years in jail by the Seremban High Court after
00:07she pleaded guilty to a charge of causing the death of her husband in 2022.
00:1258-year-old Lao Sek Yan did not contest the charge under Section 304A of the Penal Code
00:19for culpable homicide not amounting to murder after it was read to her before Judge Rohani
00:26Ismail on Monday.
00:27Earlier, her counsel, Kitson Fung, told the court that the Attorney General's chambers
00:33had accepted the defense's representation to review the original charge.
00:39Lao was initially charged under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murdering her 55-year-old
00:45husband, Po Seng Hiap.
00:48She had claimed trial when charged on January 28, 2022.
00:54Lao, who contested as an independent candidate in the Port Dixon by-election in 2018, allegedly
01:00committed the offense at their home at the Rasa Kamayan Gulf and Country Township on January
01:0623, 2022.
01:07Po, an accountant, was reportedly stabbed in the chest and abdomen.
01:13Mitigating for a lenient sentence, Fung said Lao was remorseful and regretted the incident.
01:19He said it was a tragedy which unfolded from a disagreement between a husband and wife and
01:24son and her husband escalated into a fight.