10 January 2013 :

a man who killed his parents was sentenced to death by the High Court in Sandakan, Malaysia, and also jailed 14 years for assaulting his sister. Yew Wui Lam, 32, was found guilty by Judge Supang Lian to murdering his father Hiew Hiap Foh, 71, and mother Chu Shuk Fon alias Chu Ching Mui, 62, with a knife on Sept. 13, 2011. Wui Lam was jailed 14 years on the third count of causing grievous hurt to his sister Pui Lin, 37, by stabbing her stomach and arm with a knife at the same place and time. The prosecution had called 12 witnesses to testify during the prosecution's stage while during Yew's defence, one witness testified.