00:01An unemployed Myanmar national was charged at the Kuala Lumpur Magistrates' Court on Tuesday
00:06with murdering his ex-wife in front of a condominium block in Setapak last month.
00:1126-year-old Aung Toon Ngwa nodded in understanding when the charge was read out
00:16before Magistrate Nurul Iza Hassan Basri.
00:20No plea was recorded as murder falls under the jurisdiction of the High Court.
00:24He is charged with the murder of 33-year-old Mary Yet Ngoa, also a Myanmar national,
00:30in Taman Setapak Indajaya on April 23.
00:33The charge is framed under Section 302 of the Penal Code,
00:38which upon conviction carries the death penalty or imprisonment of between 30 and 40 years
00:43and a minimum of 12 strokes of the cane.
00:46The court fixed July 31 for mention.
00:48Earlier, Kuala Lumpur Police Chief Datuk Fadil Masus was reported on April 24
00:54as saying that his department had received information that a Myanmar woman had died,
00:59believed to have been stabbed by her ex-husband.
01:02An autopsy confirmed the cause of death as a stab wound to the chest.
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