Cambodia News, Phnom Penh: At 3:50 pm, on January 27, 2023, behind Chumpouvorn Market, in Khan Por Senchey, Phnom Penh, a housewife was killed by her husband in a violent domestic dispute.

According to the police, the woman who lost her life, Ly Sopheap, a 54-years-old, was married to her attacker, Sieng Seth, 59 years old, and the couple lived together in a house in Por Senchey district with their children.


According to the authorities, the husband had been suffering from a mental illness for some time, and was taking medication every day until the evening of the incident, when he and his wife had a violent argument. The man then seized a metal staplegun and struck his wife on the head. She fell to the floor in a pool of blood.

When the couple's children came home and saw their mother lying there bleeding, they called for the police and an emergency ambulance. Unfortunately, by the time that the medical team arrived, the doctors could only confirm that the woman was already dead and there was nothing they could do.

UPDATE: Husband Arrested

Cambodia News, (Phnom Penh): A man with mental illness, who attempted to run away after beating his wife to death has now been arrested by the police by a petrol station in Tuol Pong village, Sangkat Choam Chao I, Khan Por Sen Chey.

According to sources at the scene, at around 1:30 pm on January 27, 2023, the suspect was seen holding a metal tool in one hand as he ran out of the house. But nobody paid attention to this until the children discovered their mother's dead body on the floor of the house. They said that their father had been suffering from a mental illness for many years, but for the past three days he had stopped taking his medication because he had not been able to get to the hospital.

The Po Sen Chey district police were called in and the perpetrator was tracked down and taken into custody that evening.