00:00A doctor was charged at the Johor Bahru Magistrate's Court with the murder of his wife and their four-year-old son at their home in Bandar Datto On in December.
00:10Chia Tonghong, 34, nodded to indicate he understood the charges when they were read to him before Magistrates Atifa Hazima Wahab and A. Sharmini on Friday.
00:21However, no plea was recorded as murder cases fall under the High Court's jurisdiction.
00:26He was accused of killing his 37-year-old wife, Phun Lai Ling, and their son, Aden Chia Yi Heng, at a house along Jalan Perjiranan, 11-12 on the night of December 30.
00:40In a separate Magistrate's Court, Chia pleaded not guilty to two additional charges of obstructing police investigations by allegedly disposing of his wife's artificial fingernails and repositioning his son's body after their deaths.
00:54The offenses were allegedly committed on December 31 at the same house.
01:00The case has been fixed for mention on March 17 for document submission pending post-mortem, DNA, Chemical, Forensic, and Toxicology reports.
01:09It is said police found the victims dead with injuries consistent with criminal acts.
01:14The woman was found with a slash wound on her neck while the child had bluish marks on his face, believed to have been caused by smothering.
01:23The autopsy found that the woman died of asphyxia-related causes while the boy died from smothering.
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