Two Months Prison for Driver Who Killed Three
The Appeal Court has reduced the already shortened sentence of the 31-year-old son of a high-ranking official who killed three women in a car accident, ordering him to serve just two months in prison, a court official said Tuesday. Bun Rattanak, the son of municipal finance department chief Bun Serey, hit and killed Mao Sony, 42, her 18-year-old daughter, Sem Pisey, and an unnamed pedestrian on July 21 after he lost control of his Range Rover. Three other people were injured before the vehicle came to a stop. … “We [the court] reduced the punishment for him because this is not a crime,” he [Appeal Court prosecutor Hean Rith], added. … Keo Chanthy, the husband and father of Mao Sony and Sem Pisey, said he was unhappy with the Appeal Court’s decision, but could not do anything about it since he received $24,000 compensation from Mr. Rattanak’s family a month ago. … It is common practice in Cambodian courts for cases—including serious crimes—to be dropped after a guilty party financially compensates a victim. Most recently in June, a 23-year-old medical student, Keampisith Manit—who is the daughter of the deputy director of the Kandal provincial health department—was released after her sentence was suspended except for time served in pretrial detention. While driving her Toyota Camry she hit and killed three children after injuring six others in crashes on Norodom Boulevard in March.
Aun Pheap
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