A Thai court sentences the gunman who killed a Cambodian politician to life in prison

Anne-Marie Lim (centre), widow of former Cambodian opposition lawmaker Lim Kimya, who was shot dead in Bangkok, holds a picture of her late husband as she speaks to the press before the first witness hearing in the trial at the Criminal Court in Bangkok on September 30, 2025. A Thai gunman was sentenced to life in prison on October 3 for the murder of Cambodian opposition lawmaker Lim Kimya in Bangkok, the judge said. -- Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham / AFP

BANGKOK (AP): A court in Bangkok on Friday sentenced a Thai man who shot and killed an opposition politician from Cambodia to life in prison. The January shooting in Thailand's capital was widely seen as a political assassination, but who might have ordered the killing was not revealed in the trial.

Lim Kimya, a former lawmaker from the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party, was fatally shot on Jan 7 in broad daylight near Bangkok's Khaosan Road, a neighborhood popular with backpacking tourists.