Malaysian killer says sorry to family of Australian heart surgeon he killed
Now free, Malaysian who killed Australian heart surgeon in 1991 says sorry to victim's loved ones
A Malaysian man freed from an Australian jail after serving 21 years for the murder of a top heart surgeon has asked the victim's family for forgiveness, describing his crime as a "mistake".
Chiew Seng Liew, 69, was released on parole on Friday and deported to his home country after more than two decades in prison for the 1991 shooting of Australian heart surgeon Victor Chang in a failed extortion attempt.
Liew landed in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday and told an Australian television crew awaiting his arrival that he was sorry for his role in Chang's murder.
"I made a mistake," Liew told the Seven network.
"I did the wrong thing and I made the family suffer... I want to apologise [to] the family."
Liew pulled the trigger on Chang, an internationally renowned heart transplant pioneer who was gunned down on the pavement near his family home in a killing that shocked Australia.
He served 21 years of a 26-year sentence for the murder, and claimed to now be a changed man.