The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court on May 14 placed a 43-year-old man in pre-trial detention for the “brutal” slaying of his pregnant wife in Prey Nop district’s Choeung Kor commune on May 10. Provincial court spokesman Ly Chandara said on May 15 that the investigating judge had charged Yem Chenda with the murder of his wife Vun Van, 36, in the commune’s Choeung Kor village.