[1] Sathiaraj, who was 27 at the time of the offence, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in August 2022, in addition to a 13-year jail term and five strokes of the cane for the second charge of rape.

[5] On 19 September 2019, in the Malaysian state of Selangor, an 85-year-old woman was discovered dead inside her flat at Jalan Tasik Tambahan, Ampang.

[7] Autopsy reports showed that there were semen marks on the victim's body, suggesting that Wong was likely sexually assaulted before her death, although the police did not conclude that she had been raped.

[10] Wong was revealed to have suffered from mild dementia, but she was still capable of taking care of herself, and was known to be a devout Buddhist and normally a polite and warm-hearted person.

[12] After further investigations, by early October 2019, the police released Wong's son after they confirmed that he was not involved in the rape and murder of his mother.

Shortly after, on 9 October 2019, the police managed to match the fingerprints and DNA left at the scene to one suspect, who was found to be previously convicted of drug consumption and housebreaking on three occasions.

Defence lawyer Saladin Mohd Yasin represented Sathiraj while the prosecution was led by Deputy Public Prosecutor Heikal Ismail.

Sathiaraj was called to enter his defence in the middle of his trial, and he tried to argue that he was under the influence of drugs at the time of the murder, which led to him suffering from diminished responsibility, and he claimed he was not fully conscious of his actions when the crime happened.

In his judgement, Justice Ab Karim said Sathiaraj had the intention of hurting Wong and in turn committed the murder while under a conscious state of mind.

[36][37] In April 2023, eight months after Sathiaraj was sentenced to hang, the Malaysian government officially abolished both natural life imprisonment and the mandatory death penalty.