A court in Bangkok has sentenced a Thai man who killed an opposition politician from Cambodia to life in prison. The January shooting was widely seen as a political assassination but the suspect’s motives were never fully revealed. Lim Kimya, a former lawmaker from the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party, was shot in broad daylight near Bangkok’s Khaosan Road, a neighborhood popular with backpacking tourists. The gunman, who fled the scene and made his way to Cambodia, was identified as Ekkalak Pheanoi. He was arrested and deported from Cambodia, and later confessed. The court on Friday also ordered Ekkalak to pay compensation to the victim's family.
