Chicken Farmer Gets 30 Years for Murder by Electric Fence

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Re: Chicken Farmer Gets 30 Years for Murder by Electric Fence

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Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 9:53 pm It does seem strange that a fully grown man would die from electrocution and not the kid, but supposedly it was because he was wet.

Also seems strange (to me) that the chicken farmer was sentenced for premeditated murder, when its sounds like it was an accident (from the OP). Even if it was the guy's fault for putting up the fence, that's an unusually harsh conviction and sentence.

So, as often with Cambodian news, there's probably more to this story. The death and the arrest occurred in 2017. I presume that someone else has taken over the chicken farm or the land since then.
At least the wife of the deceased got some compensation.
If he was trying to save the boy he probably had to get the wire away from him. When he got shocked the hand cramped up keeping him exposed to the electricity.

If you watch some videos with people dying from this you will see what i mean. They can basically hang from a pipe/wire even tho they already died because of the electricity keeping their hands cramped up around it.
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