A former military police officer who is in prison over a fatal shooting at a Phnom Penh mini-mart asked the Supreme Court to reduce his sentence as his lawyer argued he was remorseful and the killing had been unintentional.
Crimes are up 18 percent in the first eight months of the year in Banteay Meanchey as drunkenness, violence and theft have risen with Covid-19 hitting hard in the Thai-border province, the provincial police chief said.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court ordered the “urgent” release of a university student and TV presenter arrested for alleged theft and violence against an oknha — whom she has since accused of attempted rape, sparking a social media outcry.
In another case of violence against people linked to the upended opposition CNRP, a Phnom Penh activist was surrounded by four men at a Chroy Changva market and beaten with metal rods in broad daylight.
Two youths who were filmed smacking an unidentified foreign cyclist on the back of the head while they drove a motorbike past him were sent to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday to set an example for other wayward youth, a police official said.
A prison officer in Kandal province has been provisionally detained — in the same prison where he works — over allegedly taking a bribe to speed up the release of a prisoner.
An anti-trafficking police officer is under investigation after allegedly asking a KTV worker to sleep with him, getting rebuffed, punching the KTV’s owner and guards, pulling out his gun, then suing the owner’s son for posting video of the incident.
A Chinese inmate of Prey Sar prison, described as a drug “mastermind,” escaped from the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital on Sunday night while awaiting surgery, officials said.
A 70-year-old man in Kampong Speu province confessed to stabbing his second wife to death because she had fallen deeply in debt, borrowing from private lenders to pay microfinance institutions and vice versa, local police and a commune chief said.
An ex-Macau crime boss sanctioned by the U.S. this month partly for links to newly established businesses in Cambodia was accused by prosecutors upon his 1999 arrest of working to build an arms factory here, according to reports at the time.
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