Cambodian former opposition politician’s killer jailed for life in Thailand | Courts News

Lim Kimya was killed in January by Ekkalak Paenoi while visiting Bangkok with his wife, Anne-Marie Lim.

A court in Thailand has sentenced a Thai gunman to life imprisonment for killing a Cambodian opposition politician in Bangkok, a murder opposition figures have accused Phnom Penh’s powerful former leader Hun Sen of ordering.

French national Lim Kimya, a former opposition politician in Cambodia, was shot dead on January 7 by Ekkalak Paenoi, a former marine, as the ex-MP visited Bangkok with…