Man claims sorcery accusations made him murder his wife

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Man claims sorcery accusations made him murder his wife

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‘Sorcery accusation’ prompted killing: man

Wed, 22 March 2017
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Police in Stung Treng province have rubbished the defence of a man who claimed to have killed his wife as part of an unfinished murder-suicide driven by his shame at being accused of sorcery.

Su Reth, 44, returned to his home in Thala Barivat district’s Anlong Phe commune drunk on Sunday night and told his wife, Voeun Ley, 39, that he had been accused of being a sorcerer, said Svay Chan, deputy commune police chief.

“He told us that he and his wife were committing suicide together because they could not survive the accusations that he knew how to use magic to kill people,” Chan said.

However, Chan added, Reth told police that his wife had urged him to ignore the sorcery claims just before he stabbed her in the chest with a knife.
He had then allegedly attempted to burn down the house and stab himself but his brother-in-law, who saw the incident from his nearby home, stopped him.

This account was dismissed by Doung Sivutha, provincial head of the penal bureau, who said there was no evidence Reth was going to kill himself after stabbing his wife.
He added that under questioning by a judge, Reth admitted that he suspected his wife of having an affair. “There were no villagers who said he was sorcerer and he might have made it up,” Sivutha said.

Oeun Khen, Veal Kor village chief, said he too believed that Reth made up the sorcerer allegations because he was scared and felt guilty for killing his wife, the mother of their five children.
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Another allegation of sorcery as an excuse for murder :
‘Sorcerer’ found in pool of blood
5 March 2017
Police are hunting for four suspects accused of murdering a 61-year-old farmer they believed was a sorcerer in Pursat province.
Neang Savuth, the chief of Bakan district police, said Im Ty was attacked by the four men as he walked home at about 10.30pm on Sunday night. He was beaten with sticks, hacked with an axe and left for dead in a rice field.

The victim, who was a widower with five children, had been to meet his lover, a 57- year-old-widow from the same village, on the night of the attack.

Initial police investigations suggest the murder could have been related to a love triangle, Mr. Savuth said, adding the suspects may be the sons or nephews of the victim’s lover. “The suspects beat him while he was walking alone in the rice field in Tram Pe Village,” Mr. Savuth told Khmer Times.
“He suffered serious head injuries and was found in a pool of blood. After the killing, they all managed to flee.” ...
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37228/ ... -of-blood/
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