March 22nd 2007
DPA
A Cambodian court Thursday found disgraced former police chief Heng Pov and an accomplice guilty of illegally detaining two women and sentenced them to seven and six years in jail respectively.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court had Wednesday acquitted former Phnom Penh police chief Pov on a separate charge of kidnapping four South Korean businessmen for ransom.
Howeve, Thursday Judge Sao Meach told the court there was sufficient evidence against both Pov, 47, and former deputy chief of the Municipal Minor Crime Bureau, Ly Rasy, to suggest they had held the women more than the 48 hours permitted under the law without charge in the 2005 case and should be found guilty.
Pov and Rasy were already both serving long sentences after being convicted last September of the shooting murder of senior judge Sok Sethamony in 2003 and Rasy has also been convicted of killing another woman while she was under interrogation.
Both men protested to the court as they were sentenced, with Pov claiming he had done nothing but try to serve his country and did not deserve punishment.
Pov lost a battle for assylum and was deported home from Malaysia in December to serve the jail term handed to him in absentia for Sethamony's murder. He is still to face trial on a number of other serious counts and is under investigation for a range of crimes including kidnaps and murders.
The sentences will be served consecutively, making Pov age 72 before he is eligible for release. He is to face court again next Tuesday accused of the attempted murder of an Electricite du Cambodge official, shot three times in November 2005.
A date for Pov's hearing on yet another charge of attempted murder, this time of the editor of one of the country's largest newspapers, is yet to be announced.
The arrests of the police officers, including some of the most senior of Phnom Penh's law enforcement bureaus, shocked the nation and has undermined public confidence in an institution already dogged with allegations of corruption.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court had Wednesday acquitted former Phnom Penh police chief Pov on a separate charge of kidnapping four South Korean businessmen for ransom.
Howeve, Thursday Judge Sao Meach told the court there was sufficient evidence against both Pov, 47, and former deputy chief of the Municipal Minor Crime Bureau, Ly Rasy, to suggest they had held the women more than the 48 hours permitted under the law without charge in the 2005 case and should be found guilty.
Pov and Rasy were already both serving long sentences after being convicted last September of the shooting murder of senior judge Sok Sethamony in 2003 and Rasy has also been convicted of killing another woman while she was under interrogation.
Both men protested to the court as they were sentenced, with Pov claiming he had done nothing but try to serve his country and did not deserve punishment.
Pov lost a battle for assylum and was deported home from Malaysia in December to serve the jail term handed to him in absentia for Sethamony's murder. He is still to face trial on a number of other serious counts and is under investigation for a range of crimes including kidnaps and murders.
The sentences will be served consecutively, making Pov age 72 before he is eligible for release. He is to face court again next Tuesday accused of the attempted murder of an Electricite du Cambodge official, shot three times in November 2005.
A date for Pov's hearing on yet another charge of attempted murder, this time of the editor of one of the country's largest newspapers, is yet to be announced.
The arrests of the police officers, including some of the most senior of Phnom Penh's law enforcement bureaus, shocked the nation and has undermined public confidence in an institution already dogged with allegations of corruption.
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ReplyDeleteIF YOU ARE CAUGHT FOR DIFFAMATION OR LESE MAJESTY, YOU WILL TREATED LIKE THAT.
DO NEVER THINK THAT THE POLICE IS NAIVE... WE ARE VERY SERIOUS ABOUT EXTERNAL THREAT FROM THE MARTIANS AND THE GRINGOS
A LESSON FOR KEEMEDIOCRITY AND SAM RAIN SHIT UNCLE AND BLIND ACTIVISTS IN THE US.
BE LUCKY THAT CAMBODIA IS NOT ZIMBABWE OR MUBABE BECAUSE IF NOT YOUR HEAD WILL BE ALL SKIN HEADED BY HIS POLICE FORCE.
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ReplyDeleteThe time to HANG you is sooner than you thought.
With a country controled by all the monkies, many criminals have turned to be good personal and many good personals have turned to be criminals. What wrong with these people? THey cannot express according to the reality!!
ReplyDeleteThey get used with their old custom of saying YES YES YES and cannot say NO to their superior. THe old saying has goes, when their King Fart, they said their king fart nicely. But when their peer fart, they said their peer had bad manner. What a joke !!!!
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ReplyDeleteyour comments are always full of shit, moron.
Wounder why US invited Hok Lundy for discusion.
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ReplyDelete11:28PM. He doesn't know how much US can do.
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