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Cambodian border cop gets 25 years for Vietnam murder.

Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:09 am
by CEOCambodiaNews
The officer opened fire following an argument at a restaurant in southern Vietnam last year.

A Vietnamese court has sentenced a Cambodian police officer to 25 years in prison for killing a local gold shop owner and injuring another in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang in 2016.

The An Giang People’s Court also forced Lay Buon Thi, 53, deputy commander of a Cambodian border gate police station, to pay compensation of more than VND240 million ($10,500). An Giang shares a 100 kilometer (62 miles) border with Cambodia.

Investigations show that Thi had a house and ran his own business in An Giang’s Tinh Bien Town. At about 8:00 p.m. on July 16 last year, Thi and three other Cambodian men drove a car from Cambodia to have dinner at a restaurant in Tinh Bien.

Two locals, Le Van Duoc, a local gold shop owner, and Le Van Quang, who works at cock fighting arenas in Cambodia, invited Thi to drink some beer, but an argument between Thi and Quang erupted.

Thi left the restaurant and returned from his nearby house with a K59 pistol. The Cambodian police officer held down Quang and shot him in the shoulder, according to investigators. Duoc tried to step in but Thi shot him in the head and chest, killing him instantly, according to a witnesses.

The Cambodian officer fled the scene, shooting at his pursuers as he went but without injuring any of them. He made it back to his house and locked himself inside, Vietnamese police said.

Vietnamese armed forces surrounded the two-storey house overnight and tried to persuade him to surrender. The stand-off lasted until 5:00 a.m. on July 17 when Thi finally came out.

Searching the house, Vietnamese authorities found three guns and 500 bullets, according to Colonel Ly Ke Tung, deputy commander of An Giang’s Border Guard Force.
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Re: Cambodian border cop gets 25 years for Vietnam murder.

Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 11:01 am
by CEOCambodiaNews
Cop sentenced in Vietnam
Fri, 10 March 2017
Lay Samean

A Cambodian police officer accused of shooting and killing a Vietnamese national was sentenced to 25 years in prison in Vietnam on Tuesday after officials opted not to give him the death penalty, an official confirmed yesterday.

Lay Bunthy, a deputy police chief at the Phnom Den International Checkpoint, crossed into Vietnam last year to visit his “second wife” when the deadly altercation broke out. The Cambodian national has been in a Vietnamese prison since July 2016 on charges of murder and hiding an illegal weapon, making him eligible for the death penalty.

A district police chief in Takeo, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to discuss the case, said he believed the accused was spared the death penalty because he was a Cambodian national. “He should get the death penalty or life in prison according to their law,” he said. “But Bunthy is a Cambodian policeman that is why they decided to sentence him to 25 years in prison.”

Vietnam has sentenced foreigners to death previously, including an Australian and a Singaporean last year...
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