Phnom Penh Post Police Blotter
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- Date: 16 Jun 2006 13:37:36 -0700
JUNE 2: Police arrested four of ten gangsters when they attempted to
rape a teacher and schoolgirls at 2:30pm at Samrong Andet secondary
school in Thmey commune, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. Police named
the arrested men as Chhun Samoeun, 23, Mey Sopheak, 23, Phurn Socheat,
23, and Kang Vanna, 21. Sarom Sothy, deputy director of the school,
said the gangsters entered a class bare-chested then attempted to rape
a teacher and some students.
JUNE 2: Phal Lea, 24, was arrested by a crowd who later handed him to
police after he was beaten nearly to death when he and three
accomplices attempted a robbery at 10:15pm in Boeng Salang commune,
Phnom Penh. People told police one of the robbers threatened to kill
UNESCO worker Soeng Pisith, 32, and his wife, Rith Theavy, 25, with a
plastic handgun and tried to escape after stealing their two platinum
necklaces while they were riding home on a motorbike.
JUNE 3: Keo Pheap, 39, escaped after killing his mother-in-law, Pan
Lean, 72, at 2:20pm in Kandal village, Battambang province. Chhim
Kimhong, police inspector of Kom Reang district, said Pheap axed Lean
three times in the head and the back when she intervened to stop him
chopping his wife.
JUNE 4: A 68-year-old woman was taken to a hospital for treatment after
being raped and losing consciousness at a neighbor's house in Khlar
Ngoap village, Banteay Meanchey province. The woman told police she was
raped after drinking many glasses of wine given by Mao Saran, 48, who
took her into his house then raped her. Saran escaped.
JUNE 7: Kim Chhun Y,41, was fatally gunned down while buying vegetables
outside Boeng Kak market in Kampong Cham province. A bystander said
Chhun Y was shot in the head with a handgun by a man who escaped
empty-handed on a motorbike driven by his accomplice. Police suspected
revenge because Kim Chanda, 20, said his father recently had a court
case over a property dispute with his brother-in-law, Vurn.
JUNE 6: A provincial court sentenced Chan Primprey, 18, to 15 years in
prison for the rape of a four-year-old girl in Boeng Botkandal village,
Pursat province. Presiding judge Pen Sarath said at the hearing that
Primprey was arrested on December 31, 2005, one day after the rape.
Sarath ordered Primpey to pay four million riel to the girl in damages.
JUNE 7: Mao Sothea, 24, a restaurant security guard, was shot twice by
a drunken man when he told him to stop urinating in the restaurant
garden. Sothea was taken from the New World restaurant to Preah
Kettomealea hospital after being shot at 1:30pm in Srah Chak commune,
Phnom Penh. A bystander told police Sothea was shot twice, in the
shoulder and the thigh, with a handgun by a drunken man who was angry
that Sothea stopped him urinating in the garden, across from Phnom Le
Phnom karaoke shop where he had been drinking wine with associates. The
offender escaped in his car.
JUNE 7: Police arrested a fortuneteller, Houy Chanthy, 40, who was
accused of cheating a couple out of a diamond valued at $20,000 two
years ago in Takhmau village, Kandal province. Police said Chanthy
cheated the couple, Seang Naren and So Sokhom, when they handed it to
her and asked her to perform some magic on it to bring good luck for
their business. Chanthy substituted a fake diamond.
JUNE 8: Khy Dean, 43, was sentenced to 19 years in a provincial prison
after being convicted for a murder a year ago in Ta Chor village,
Kampong Thom province. Judge Khlaut Pich said Dean was arrested after
he killed Vaing Dai on August 3, 2005. The judge said Dai was chopped
three times and his head cut off with a knife while he slept in a
hammock beneath his house. Dean told the court he had chopped Dai
because he thought he was a ghost while he was hunting a snake near his
house.
JUNE 9: A Briton, Neil David Shaw, 36, died on the way to Chamkar Chek
hospital in Sihanoukville after he was found naked and unconsciousness
around 8pm at a guesthouse. Police, who are continuing their
investigation, said their preliminary assessment was that Shaw died of
a heart attack. The corpse was later sent by the British Embassy to
Phnom Penh for examination.
JUNE 11: A four months pregnant woman, Yong Ron, 21, was taken to a
provincial hospital after her boyfriend, Hoeun Sreang, 20, sliced open
her stomach in an attempt to take out her baby for kaun krak magic at
midnight in Achar Leak village, Kampong Thom province. Sreang escaped
but was arrested when he entered the hospital and made another attempt.
Ron said Sreang had asked her for the baby three times but she had
refused.
JUNE 11: Yim Yean, 42, a security guard at a branch office of Cambo
Six, committed suicide at 7:30pm in Kandal village, Phnom Penh. Police
said Yean drank a can of beer then entered the company and shot himself
in the right ear with a K-54 handgun. The police said he killed himself
because he had a family problem, but another security guard said Yean
killed himself because he had lost money in the World Cup football
tournament.
- Translated from Khmer newspapers Koh Santepheap and Rasmei Kampuchea
by Aun Pheap
Phnom Penh Post, Issue 15 / 12, June 16 - 29, 2006
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