A young man is being made to pay for his alleged evil ways after he was accused of having a hand in the murder of his young girlfriend.
Hong Kalydin was arrested by the police
The man, identified as Hong Kalydin, has been arrested after killing his girlfriend.
Kalydin, a fresh police recruit was charged with murdering his 20-year-old girlfriend, and appeared in court on Thursday, June 23 for his third and final hearing at Phnom Penh Municipal Court, Cambodia.
According to Niem Chheng, the trial resumed from a postponement last December when the court ordered a reinvestigation of the case due to a lack of evidence.
28-year-old Hong Kalydin, was arrested and charged with murder accompanied by torture in October 2014, a week after the body of his girlfriend Song Davin was found floating on the Tonle Sap river.
The boy of the murdered girl
The court heard from a defence attorney witness who claimed to have seen the victim in a nightclub two days before she was found dead.
"On the night of October 5, I went to Mekong Nightclub with my sisters and saw five girls and one slim guy sitting inside. On October 7, a body was found on the river. People asked me and three other guys to take the body [out]. Then I saw it was one of the girls I had seen in the nightclub," said witness You Maliki, who works as a fisherman.
When the judge asked if he could identify Kalydin, Maliki said,
"No, it was not him who I saw in the nightclub."
The prosecutor, judge and victim’s lawyer all found his account suspect and pressed him on the details. Police stated that DNA testing revealed no semen on the victim’s body.
Presiding judge Veng Huoth said the verdict would be announced on an unspecified date due to the complexity of the case.