There was a knock on the bedroom door of Hans Herzog and his wife at about 12.00 midnight.
Suddenly, a guy attacked her from inside the room using some weapon.
She became scared and closed the door.
She opened the door a second time to see if Sue Yin was in the room.
She heard someone hide behind the room door.
She closed the door and ran to her bedroom.
Hans got up and asked her what was happening. She told him a guy attacked her in Sue Yin’s room. She told him not to go there.
Hans rushed to Sue Yin’s room; his wife did not follow him but remained in her bedroom.
She heard him cry out in pain, then he come back into the master bedroom with his face slashed.
Hans picked up a T-shirt, asked his wife to get help, and ran downstairs.
She remained in her bedroom and closed the door.
She opened the door and saw a man running downstairs - it was not the same man she'd seen the first time she opened Sue Yin’s room door.
The man then came back up the stairs.
She closed her bedroom door and locked herself inside, then shouted for help from the window.
She was in her room for about 10 minutes when her other daughter, Sue Kin, called for her at her room door.
She and Sue Kin ran downstairs and saw Hans lying on the floor, in a pool of blood.
-- Low Kian Boon v. Public Prosecutor [2010] 5 CLJ 489 (Federal Court).
*The facts above were taken from the summary of the trial judge, with some minor changes (substituted the given titles of the persons involved with their real names).
Still want to be a criminal lawyer?
If you ask me, a case where the accused person says he was trying to help one of the daughters 'escape the clutches of her step-father' and where the deceased ran right into a parang (having his spinal cord completely cut off in the process) is pretty fishy.
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