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THE MALAYSIAN man found guilty of murdering a university professor more than 14 years ago is headed for the gallows, following a rare 2-to-1 split decision on his conviction in a three-judge Court of Appeal on Monday.
The dissenting judge felt 38-year-old Lee Chez Kee should be re-tried.
The court was also split on the legal issue of whether incriminating statements made by Lee's accomplice - who was hanged in 1999 - can be admitted in court as evidence against him.
The majority view: No.
Lee was one of three men who robbed Associate Professor Lee Kok Cheong, 54, at his house in Greenleaf Place, off Holland Road, on Dec 12, 1993.
Police officers, responding to a neighbour's call two days later, found the body of the National University of Singapore don with his wrists tied, his ankles bound and a pillow over his face.
He had been stabbed in the neck, but what killed him was strangulation by an electrical cord.
One man, Too Yin Sheong, 26, was convicted of the murder in 1998 and hanged the following year.
Read the full report in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
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