A British man’s Cambodian wife said in court on Wednesday that her previous testimony accusing him of molesting their 13-year-old niece had been given out of jealousy and she now wanted justice for him.

 

Matthew William Watkin, an English teacher living in Siem Reap province, was convicted of sexual assault in 2020, and was sentenced to two years and six months in prison. He was also fined about $1,000 and ordered to pay compensation of $2,500. During the initial trial, his wife Prin Sophea said she had seen him molesting their 13-year-old niece when she came home from work at 11 p.m. on March 18, 2020.

 

However, during a Supreme Court appeal on Wednesday, Sophea testified that on the night of March 18, 2020, her niece and husband were both at home, but she hadn’t seen him sexually assaulting the niece. She was drunk and felt jealous, she said, adding that she could even feel jealousy about Watkin and his sister.

 

read more https://vodenglish.news/wife-of-english-teacher-flips-testimony-about-sexual-assault/

 

A woman scorned. Disgusting behavior. 

 

Get him out of jail and her into it. ????

 

What a nightmare this poor guy must be going through.  And it's taken two years for her to come clean.

 

I guess the word of the drunk wife was enough to get a conviction because he is foreign?  Or did the girl play along?

 

So easy for a foreigner to fall foul of the law in these places, even when he has done nothing wrong.

 

Just awful.

Edited April 21, 20224 yr by BangkokReady