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| Narin Sok (Photo: Edmonton Journal) |
CBC News (Canada)
A 52-year-old Edmonton man was found not criminally responsible Monday in the death of his wife.
A Court of Queen's Bench judge ruled that Narin Sok did not know what he was doing when he strangled his wife Deang Huon, 40, in their central Edmonton apartment on July 30, 2008.
The Crown and defence lawyers recommended in a joint submission last week that Sok not be held criminally responsible. Justice Darlene Acton agreed.
Sok's fate in now in the hands of Alberta's Mental Health Panel which will decide if and when he should be released into the community.
Narin Sok is shown here on the day he was arrested in his wife's death. Edmonton Police ServiceHe is currently a patient at Alberta Hospital.
A forensic psychiatrist determined Sok was suffering from a mental disorder likely caused by heavy metal poisoning at the time his wife was slain.
Sok was found to be have acute renal failure when he was arrested. Tests taken on that day showed he had toxic levels of lead, manganese and cadmium in his blood.
Sok had long-term exposure to toxic heavy metals at work, the psychiatric report stated.
Sok worked for scrap metal firms for six years starting in 1986. Then he worked for General Scrap Iron and Metal from June 2005 to July 2008 where he was responsible for cutting and peeling wires and cables to recover copper, aluminum and lead.
On the day he killed his wife, Sok melted two belts made of zinc, silver and lead on the stove which created a large amount of smoke in the apartment.
The belts belonged to Sok and his wife and were purchased in Cambodia on the belief they would help the couple conceive a child.
When police arrived at the apartment, they found the front door had been barricaded with sacks of rice. Sok was sitting on his bed surrounded by black garbage bags. Police found Huon's body under a pile of garbage bags, clothes and rice bags.
Sok later said he could not believe what he had done. He insisted he had no motive to hurt his wife and that he only wanted to protect her.
7 comments:
Justice in Canada is a joke:
1/ One guy drove from his house to his in law, killed her and returned home.
His defend at the trial was he was sleep walking for the whole time from driving from his house and the murder of his in law and the judge bought the story and let him free.
2/ a guy raped a woman.
He went to the woman' s room forced her to undress, put on the condom and raped her, his claimed at the trial was: He did not know it happened, every thing happened when he was walk sleeping and he was set free just like the 1st case.
* One guy made comment about this case:
I wonder why this guy was not sleep walking to wash the car, doing laundry or washing dishes instead of raping some body?
The Canadian Justic System may not know that Sok Narin used to be one of the low or medium-ranking KR cadre.
So in his case there is a possibility that the inhaling of all those chemicals may have been responsible for his delusion and thus leading to his killing of his wife, but there is also a possibility that this man who used to kill and torture people in Cambodia during the KR time can kill on his own as well. After all, he is a very jealous man according to some Cambodians who live in Edmonton.
Justice in a free world can sometimes be a joke!
this is the game of mental to kill someone and stay free and bloody hand .so what kind of this judge on this case .
this is the killing in family ,most of these age alway had some changing and being strength of living .
the main key are MONEY AND SEX.IF THEY LOST CONTROL OF LIFE
The court decision was based on the witness, forensic psychiatrist and others professional evaluation not an individual.
All of you above ought to educate yourself on how the court system work in the Democracy world. Don't just barked at anything you see. Be rational!! moron.
AH! kwack watch for factory and gabage from a broad it may poison people, sTUPID!
12:52 AM
Are you high? what are you taling about?
10:54 PM,
And you think the court in your democratic country won't make a mistake, I guess and that is why you called everyone else a moron and who are you? A fucker?
There are always two sides of the story. Perhaps you should talk the family members of the Deang Houn who died and see what they think of you or want to do to you!
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