Tragic Tale of a Man who Lost his Mind and his Life, Murdered his Wife

[CEOCambodiaNews]

Cambodia News, (Kandal province): According to Brigadier General Sam Tola, Commander of the Kandal Provincial Gendarmerie, a village man who was accused of stabbing his wife to death, at 6:30 pm on July 23, 2023, at a house in Prek Treng village, Samrong Thom commune, Kien Svay district, Kandal province, was searched for by the Kandal Provincial Gendarmerie all that night and the next day, until he came out of hiding from a mango grove near his house in Prek Treng village, on the night of July 24, 2023.



Once the suspect was taken into custody by the gendarmes, he admitted that he had killed his wife by stabbing her to death. The murder was triggered off by the man's anger toward his wife, who was always out gambling and drinking with other men, and she rarely came home except to ask him for money.

The suspect, Oeun Sin, 44, a farmer living in the commune, made a full confession that he killed his wife with a sharp knife, because he was jealous and angry that she was out drinking as usual, and he had no money for food to feed the family, only debts. He said that his wife was often went out drinking with men, she rarely came home to look after the children and her husband, but she had borrowed thousands of dollars and did not bother to pay them back, telling the creditors that he, her husband, would pay for her gambling debts. This was the last straw for the husband, who saw red.

That night, the husband admitted that he lost his mind, and after stabbing his wife in a fit of anger, he ran home with the knife, which he threw down next to a water urn outside his house, and then he ran away to hide in a mango orchard about 500 meters from the house, telling his daughter not to tell anyone that he was there.
However, on the night of July 24, 2023, when he was hungry, thirsty and tired, the fugitive walked out of the mango plantation into the village, where he gave himself up and was arrested by the military police.


A sad tale: the woman is dead, the husband will be jailed for murder, and the children will be orphaned. The Royal Cambodian Gendarmerie built a case file for murder and sent the accused to the Kandal Provincial Court, and on July 27, 2023, a detention order was issued by the court.