Court upholds 7-year jail term for farmer



Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

 Phnom Penh Appeals Court on Tuesday upheld the 7-year jail term for a 45-year-old man

for killing his wife in Koh Thom district in Kandal province in 2017. 

The Court’s Presiding Judge Pol Sam Oeun identified the accused as Sok Thner and his wife as Mom Saveth, 43.  Both are farmers and had three children living in Prek Chrey commune. 

Judge Sam Oeun said that the accused was charged with intentional act of violence under Article 224 of the criminal code.

“The Phnom Penh Appeal Court considered the accused Sok Thner’s 7-year jail term given by Kandal Provincial Court was made in accordance with the law and his sentence had been already reduced by the provincial court and is little for the crime that he had committed,” Judge Sam Oeun read the verdict. 

“Therefore, the Phnom Penh Appeal Court did not consider the accused’s request for his sentence to be reduced.  The Phnom Penh Appeal Court has decided to uphold the ruling of Kandal Provincial Court as effected,” he said. 

Judge Sam Oeun emphasized that in this case, Kandal Provincial Court on January 25, 2019 sentenced Sok Thner to seven years in prison for intentional act of violence with aggravating circumstance, but he appealed against it.  He said that Sok Thner was arrested on June 14, 2017.  

He added that the victim was struck by the accused and she later died due to serious injuries.

During the appeal hearing yesterday, Thner who was present at the courtroom, admitted committing the offense. He said he hit his wife because he was angry with her for heavy drinking and not making food for him. He said there was no intention to kill her. 

 

 


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