MALAYSIA - LEE Meng Ching, a father of three, knew that his wife was having an affair.

One day more than four years ago, he went to her lover's house and peeped through the front door.

He saw the adulterous couple naked and having sex.

Lee, 36, a cook, went into a fit of rage.

He entered the house but his wife had already gone outside by then.

Lee beat up Chong Swee Sang, 45, with a stick and left him with a broken leg and in a pool of blood.

Chong was found dead the next morning and yesterday, Lee was jailed eight years for causing his death on June 22, 2005.

According to the statement of facts, Lee went to Chong's house in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, looking for his wife.

Realising Lee's presence, Chong asked the woman to quickly hide outside the house.

Peeking through a hole in the wall of the house, the woman saw Lee entering the house and heard Chong shouting: "Enough! Enough!".

She also heard her husband asking Chong where she was.

Chong replied that he did not know.

A fight ensued for about 30 minutes before Lee left.

Lee's wife went into the house but Chong asked his lover to leave for fear that Lee might come back and hurt her.

A colleague found Chong's body at 9.30 the next morning.

In mitigation, counsel K.A. Ramu said his client had been provoked when he saw his wife and Chong having sex.

Ramu also said Lee had previously warned Chong to leave his wife alone.

He said the couple's children - ages 14, 11 and six - were now being cared for by his relatives as his wife had abandoned them.

Judicial Commissioner Azman Abdullah said the court did not deny the fact that one life was taken and that the deceased had been a husband and had a 14-year-old disabled child.

"However, the court also considered the fact that the accused had been provoked, and the fact that the weapon used was found outside the deceased's house.

"This shows that the incident was not planned and that the accused did not bring the weapon with him," he said.