Teacher charged with killing boyfriend

PETALING JAYA: A music teacher has been charged in the magistrate’s court here with murdering her 46-year-old British boyfriend in his rented house at SS2 last Friday.

A handcuffed Karen Khaw Phaik Ean, 36, listened calmly as the charge was read out to her before magistrate Ho Kwong Chin yesterday.

No plea was recorded. She was also not offered any bail.

Ho fixed April 13 for mention and consent from the prosecution to transfer the case to the High Court.

Lawyer Chan Weng Keng, who represented Khaw, told the court that he was denied access to see his client on Tuesday at the Petaling Jaya police station where she was detained.

He then requested to be given half an hour to see Khaw to discuss matters with her, to which the magistrate consented.

Chan later told reporters that Khaw informed him some RM700 was missing from her wallet while she was in police custody.

“I have advised her family to lodge a police report on the matter,” he said.

Deputy public prosecutor Zhafran Rahim Hamzah appeared for the prosecution.

Khaw was charged with causing the death of Andrew Michael Murchie between 8am and 9am on March 5.

She was charged with murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code, which carries the death sentence.

It was reported that Murchie, believed to be a former army personnel, was found dead with stab and slash wounds on his neck.

Khaw found his body sprawled naked on the floor of a room in the double-storey house.

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