Malaysian jailed for surgeon's murder to be freed soon

2009/10/26

MELBOURNE: A Malaysian jailed for the murder of renowned heart surgeon Dr Victor Chang will soon walk free after having served his minimum 18-year jail sentence.
Dr Chang, 54, was shot dead on a footpath at Mosman in Sydney's northern suburbs on July 4, 1991.
This followed a failed extortion attempt by Liew Chew Seng alias Ah Sung and the Malaysian, Philip Lim Choon Tee.
Liew and Lim were found guilty of murder and were sentenced to the maximum 26 years and 24 years, respectively.
A New South Wales Corrective Services spokesman said the State Parole Authority ruled that Lim, believed to be from Jinjang, Selangor could be released from Parramatta Jail on Nov 11.
That's when he would have served his minimum sentence of 18 years.
"It looks like he'll be deported to Malaysia," the spokesman told Australian Associated Press.
Former chief inspector Dennis O'Toole, who helped solve Dr Chang's murder, said he was in a state of shock.
"I feel very sorry for the Chang family because they can't get on with their lives...they''re going to have it for the rest of their lives," he told TV Network Seven.
"It somehow just doesn''t seem right."

-- BERNAMA