MALAYSIA. MAN TO HANG FOR MOM'S MURDER

Ho Sek Kong was sentenced to death by the Malaysian High Court for the brutal murder of his mother. Ho, 26, stood in the dock listening to the almost hour-long judgment by Justice Datuk Abdull Hamid Embong which was translated into Mandarin for him by a court interpreter. In his oral judgment, Abdull Hamid said he found Ho's version of what happened the day his mother, Cheah Seaw Meng, 52, was murdered, an afterthought, which ended in being a mere denial of the prosecution's case. His intent to murder can be seen from the 55 injuries on the victim's body, which from the pathologist's report, was said to have been caused by an iron pipe and a blunt object, the judge added.