Photos: Man accused of killing his 20-year-old girlfriend

A fresh police recruit charged with murdering
his 20-year-old girlfriend appeared in court on
Thursday, June 23 for his third and final
hearing at Phnom Penh Municipal Court,
Cambodia.
The trial resumed from a postponement last
December when the court ordered a
reinvestigation of the case due to a lack of
evidence.
Hong Kalydin, 28, 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 court heard 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.