Grenade attack verdicts

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced four men to between 30 years and life in prison for a grenade attack in Phnom Penh last year, an attempted assassination that injured five people and killed the intended target’s 11-year-old son.

Presiding judge Leang Samnath convicted the group of conspiring to murder 56-year-old Sorn Sin – a rival of the plot’s “mastermind”, Phy Nop – by tossing a grenade at the family’s home in Sen Sok district on the evening of October 9.

Nop, 46, the former chief of Kouk Roka commune, who had clashed with Sin over commune politics and a land dispute, was found guilty of planning and initiating the premeditated murder of Sin and handed a life sentence.

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