Thursday August 26, 2010
A massage that ends in woman’s homicide
By LISA GOH
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SHAH ALAM: A salesman went to a woman’s office to teach her how to use a massage chair that she had bought. The woman, however, said she was not comfortable with the chair and wanted a massage from him instead. So, Soh Kee Hui, 31, gave her a massage and while doing so, grabbed a towel and strangled 62-year-old Soh Pa Lee, and slammed her head against the floor.
He then took her credit cards, mobile phone, wallet and fled in her car, which he then sold to an Ah Long for RM800. Yesterday, Kee Hui paid for his crime when he was jailed seven years after pleading guilty to a manslaughter charge in the High Court here. Kee Hui had initially claimed trial to murder, but changed his plea yesterday to an alternative charge of manslaughter before High Court judge Justice Mohtarudin Baki.
His sentence is set to run from the date of his arrest on Oct 7, 2008. After strangling her at her office at 29A Jln Rengas, Taman Selatan, in Klang on Sept 7, 2007, Kee Hui locked up the office. Pa Lee’s body was only found by her younger brother Kevin in a semi-decomposed state at about 11am three days later. Kee Hui also used her credit cards for purchases amounting to RM4,203 at several stores including a jeans boutique, a mobile phone store, and a watch and jewellery store.
Post-mortem reports put Pa Lee’s cause of death as “compression of the neck”. Other injuries found on her included bruises on the right eye, forehead, lips and chin. In mitigation, Kee Hui’s counsel Azizzul Shariman Mat Yusof said his client had came from a broken home. His parents were divorced and he was raised by his stepmother.
