Tycoon’s ex-partner denied bail over rape-murder plot
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday denied bail to the former common-law wife of one of Cambodia’s richest men, who was extradited from Thailand on Tuesday over her alleged involvement in a plot to rape and murder Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol’s wife and daughter. Lay Huong, 49, was listed by Interpol as having been convicted in October 2012 of “initiative in a rape and premeditated murder attempt” over the apparent conspiracy to rape and murder Mr. Chanthol’s loved ones, but the municipal court Thursday treated her case as still open. …
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