Cambodia News (Battambang): A man died of a heart attack soon after electrocuting his wife in Battambang. The suspect was arrested and sent to Sengke police station for questioning.
He confessed that he deliberately killed his wife with an electric wire, and police detained the man in custody. Mr. Sun Sovann, the inspector of Sangake police station, said the suspect was a drug user who was previously known to police.


Then, on April 3, 2021, at 8:45 am, the suspect was struggling to breathe, so the police sent him to the hospital, where he died of a heart attack. He leaves two orphaned daughters.

UPDATE: According to RFA, the man's family reject the official post mortem finding that he died of a heart attack, allegedly due to an overdose of drugs that he took while he was in custody.

Battambang - Pich Theareth, a 31-year-old also known as Sna, died while in police custody on April 3 following his arrest for allegedly murdering his wife Chea Chanrachna by electrocution out of jealousy that same day. Sna’s sister, Pich Lina, said his wife had died in an accident, but Sna’s mother-in-law accused him of cutting a power line to kill her and demanded that the police arrest him.

He was later found dead of what authorities said was a heart attack, but Pich Lina said that head-to-toe bruising on his face, legs, and arms suggested that he had been tortured to death in custody.

Photos of Sna’s bloody and bruised body quickly circulated on social media and on April 4, amid public criticism of the authorities over his death, Battambang Provincial Police Commissioner Kosal issued a statement. In it, he claimed that Sna had been taken for questioning the day before by the Sangke District Police Inspectorate, during which he admitted to murdering his wife and that he was a “regular drug user” who had taken the methamphetamine known as “ice” twice in just over an hour on the day he killed her.

Kosal said that after questioning him, police locked Sna in the local detention center, where he shouted repeatedly in his cell before making “abnormal noises” and finally going silent. When police inspected his cell, they found him unconscious and rushed him to the hospital, the commissioner said, but he died on the way.

The commissioner claimed that the autopsy showed that Sna had died of a heart attack due to drug overdose and stressed that “police did not beat or torture him.” He did not comment on what had caused the injuries and bruises found on Sna’s body but said that his family is free to file a complaint with the courts seeking justice if they were not satisfied by the police report.
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