Valentine’s Day killer sentenced to death
Cheong (left) being escorted by cops.
GEORGE TOWN: An engineer accused of killing his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day three years ago has been sentenced to death by hanging at the High Court here.
In his ruling, Judicial Commissioner Collin Lawrence Sequerah found Cheong Teik Keon, 34, guilty of murdering clerk Tan Ching Chin, 24.
Cheong was accused of having murdered Tan at her family home in Taman Hwa Seng in Alma, Bukit Mertajam, at 8.40am on Feb 14, 2013.
Collin, in his judgment, said the defence had failed to prove that Cheong was of unsound mind at the time of the incident.
Cheong was represented by Ramkarpal Singh and Muhammad Arif Shaharuddin, while deputy public prosecutor Lim Cheah Yit prosecuted the case
