Woman, 91, faces murder count
March 17, 2010, Wednesday
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A BIZARRE murder case unfolding in Sydney with a Shanghai link has attracted Australia-wide publicity in newspapers and on television and radio.
A 91-year-old woman is charged with killing her 98-year-old husband after more than 70 years of marriage.
The two were originally from Shanghai but had Australian citizenship, the woman's legal representative said.
In Sydney's Central Local Court yesterday, barrister John Davidson, appearing for Clara Tang, said she was suffering from "serious medical issues," The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
He requested that she be removed from a women's prison to a hospital where she could receive appropriate medical care.
Clara Tang was arrested and later charged with murdering husband Tang Ching Yung, after police found his body, suffering severe head wounds, in their Sydney apartment last Friday night.
Davidson told the court that Alexander Beveridge, a staff specialist in geriatric medicine at St Vincent's Hospital in inner Sydney, had agreed to accept Mrs Tang as a patient in a locked ward.
A forensic psychiatrist had examined her and determined that there were "no safety issues," the SMH reported.
Prosecutor Karl Prince told Magistrate Alan Moore he did not oppose bail and the admission of Mrs Tang to the hospital after the psychiatrist's report.
However, he asked the magistrate to note the post-mortem report on the severity of Mr Tang's injuries.
Davidson said he hoped the report could be tabled to the court by Friday, as Mrs Tang was "in a poor and confused state" and it was "undesirable" that she remained in jail over the weekend.
Mrs Tang did not appear in court yesterday and a Shanghainese-speaking interpreter was requested for her formal bail hearing on Friday.
Her granddaughter refused to speak to journalists outside court.
Family friend George Tsoi told the SMH on Monday that Mrs Tang was a "very, very gentle" person, who loved her husband.
He said the Tangs were a "lovely couple" who had been married for more than 70 years.
A 91-year-old woman is charged with killing her 98-year-old husband after more than 70 years of marriage.
The two were originally from Shanghai but had Australian citizenship, the woman's legal representative said.
In Sydney's Central Local Court yesterday, barrister John Davidson, appearing for Clara Tang, said she was suffering from "serious medical issues," The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
He requested that she be removed from a women's prison to a hospital where she could receive appropriate medical care.
Clara Tang was arrested and later charged with murdering husband Tang Ching Yung, after police found his body, suffering severe head wounds, in their Sydney apartment last Friday night.
Davidson told the court that Alexander Beveridge, a staff specialist in geriatric medicine at St Vincent's Hospital in inner Sydney, had agreed to accept Mrs Tang as a patient in a locked ward.
A forensic psychiatrist had examined her and determined that there were "no safety issues," the SMH reported.
Prosecutor Karl Prince told Magistrate Alan Moore he did not oppose bail and the admission of Mrs Tang to the hospital after the psychiatrist's report.
However, he asked the magistrate to note the post-mortem report on the severity of Mr Tang's injuries.
Davidson said he hoped the report could be tabled to the court by Friday, as Mrs Tang was "in a poor and confused state" and it was "undesirable" that she remained in jail over the weekend.
Mrs Tang did not appear in court yesterday and a Shanghainese-speaking interpreter was requested for her formal bail hearing on Friday.
Her granddaughter refused to speak to journalists outside court.
Family friend George Tsoi told the SMH on Monday that Mrs Tang was a "very, very gentle" person, who loved her husband.
He said the Tangs were a "lovely couple" who had been married for more than 70 years.
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